That white rose over the tomb of Pope Francis, a sign of St. Terezina who « heard »

Throughout his life and papal, Pope Francis emphasized his connection with the Carmelit’s mystic, which he said – he had believed a problem, asking him « not to solve it, but to take it and help me accept it ». In response, it got a white rose. So it was during hospitalization at the Gemelli Hospital. And now, a white rose looks over the marble slab of his tomb in the Basilica of Great

On a marble table, below the paintings and icons, outside the apartment of Pope Francis in St. Marta’s house, a white, fresh rose was always placed. He was a symbol of his connection with « Theresina », St. Teresa of Lisieux A St. Teresa of Christ Child, to whom he always prayed to seek grace, believing in his intercession his and others’ difficulties. Since last night, a white rose is placed on a surface other than that of the table, but always marble. It is the marble tomb from Liguria, where the name « Franciscus » is carved, in the Basilica of St. Mary the Great, under which the Holy Father Bergoglio rests on eternity. It is not for beauty, but for showing continuity and dedication to this mystical Karmelitan saint.

That flower was accompanied by Jorge Mario Bergoglio throughout life. He himself talks about this in the book-interVist « El Jesuita », written by Argentine journalists Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti, who, describing the then-Buenos Ajres Archbishop’s library, noticed a vase full of white roses in a photo of St. Teresa, who was only 24 years old, who was only 24 years old, Holy proclaims Pope Piu XI and the Church’s scholar by Pope Holy John Paul II in 1997.

Pope Francis’s tomb

So it was in the first months of Papnia and precisely, in September 2013, when the Pope invited the believers to prayer, to St. Peter’s Square, for peace in Syria, which, at the time, was on the verge of the abyss of bloody conflict, caused by ISIS. During the prayer evening, some excerpts were read from St. Teresa’s poems of Lisieux and Pope Francis, returning to St. Martha’s house, received as a gift, suddenly, a white rose, snapped from a gardener in the Vatican gardens.

The Pope received the same gift a few days after his last laying at the Gemelli Polyclinic for Pneumonia on both sides: a white packed, packed saint rose coming from home to Lisieux. He kept it above the comfort, near his bed. « Sign », too, that Teresina accompanied her until the last moments of her life.

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