The most beautiful, curious, oldest and youngest graves – Diepresse.com
His last will: Francis is buried in a simple earth grave in Santa Maria Maggiore – an extreme contrast to the postumen pomp of many of his predecessors. Who also left us unique works of art.
In his will, Pope Francis has precisely determined where his “last earthly journey” is to end: in the early Christian church of Santa Maria Maggiore, one of the four papal basilics of Rome. In addition to the chapel with the “Salus Populi Romani” Marien icon, in front of which he often prayed: “The tomb must be in the earth, simple, without special decorations and with the only inscription: Franciscus.” The tomb for the largest sculptor and builder of the Roman Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, proves to be similarly modest in the same church. He also created the cathedra altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, which is currently being renovated-Francis took a look at work ten days ago when you visit a surprise in a wheelchair.
The most beautiful
Recently, the work on Bernini’s tomb for Urban VIII. The great patron of the artist reserved one of the most prominent places in the most important church of Christianity. This monument ordered during his lifetime stands in his fantastic splendor in a blatant contrast to the last resting place of Francis. A bronze sitting figure that seems to bless the whole cosmos, besides, two marble women who Caritas With two children and the Justitia, and in between (see illustration) the death that the name of the Pontifex Inserts a book of black marble: Barberini, from the Tuscan noble family with the bees in the coat of arms. And that is why those who look closely see from the sarcophagus three golden bees, who seem to look for their dead man.
