The Vatican factory goes to full gas. Souvenirs with the new Pope could be already on Monday
The new Pope is elected by 133 cardinals.
From the Vatican from our reporter Ján Krempaský.
Rome. Pope with compound hands, the pope blessing or simply smiling. Souvenir shops around St. Peter in the Vatican offer during the Conclave of Souvenirs with the Head of the Catholic Church in all possible forms.
So far they still have a Francis offering who died of Easter Monday. Its more serious competitor in showcases is only his ancient predecessor, and in Slovakia still very popular Pope John Paul II.
Not only the Catholic Church is preparing for the new Pope, but also the shops and stalls around the Vatican.
« The Vatican factory goes to full speed, » the souvenir seller grins and points towards the Square of St. Petra. He does not want to say the name, like most of the dealers in ten stores that SME daily visited on Thursday. The stand of this Taliana in the middle years is located at Via della Conciliazione leading directly to the Square of St. Peter, near the apartment of the former Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomek.
If the cardinals were elected a new Pope on Thursday, the first souvenirs with its portrait could appear in the shop windows on Monday.
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The successor of Pope Francis is elected by 133 cardinals from Wednesday, who are less than 80 years old and come from 60 countries. The elections of the Popes lasted on average two to three days since the end of World War II. Vaticanist Ansa Fausto Gasparoni in an interview for SME estimated that the new Pope could be elected on Friday or Saturday. However, the Dean of the Cardinal College Giovanni Battista RE expects white smoke on Thursday evening.
In the article you can read
- What depends on when the first souvenirs come with a new pope,
- whether there is still interest in souvenirs with the head of the Catholic Church,
- Whose souvenir dealers are betting on the new Pope.
Magnet on Monday?
« What day is it today? » We will look at the editor of the seventy -year -old Mario, the owner of the Souvenirs San Pietro store. It looks like cut out of Italian films from the 60s and 70s of the last century.
« The first souvenirs with the new Pope could be available on Monday, » he notes when he gets the answer that it is Thursday.
The speed at which it can provide souvenirs with a portrait of the new Pope is due to the fact that its suppliers are very well prepared for the choice of the new church head. « They have photos of all 133 cardinals, and when they choose one, they immediately produce souvenirs with its portrait, » he says intimately as if he would dedicated the editor to the secret ritual.
Ukrainian Mila, who has a souvenir shop Ave Roma just a few meters from Mariov, not in estimating the supply of new souvenirs such an optimist. « Apparently it will take a few weeks, » he says.
However, when she learns that Mario expects them on Monday, she will significantly shorten the delivery time of her supposed delivery.
No competition is externally affected by the owner of the Numismatica philatelii on Piazza della Cittá Leoniana near the Sistine Chapel. « I only sell coins, » he says to proud tones to show that ordinary souvenirs are something inferior. He does not want to disclose his name. « The coins with the new Pope will be in a few months, » he adds.
He also has many souvenirs in the shop, most often with Pope Francis.
In the next trade opposite the entrance to the Vatican Bank, Františka’s photo must fit into a cellophane, in which it forms an inseparable pair with a holy water in a plastic bottle. She is viewed by about sixty -year -old Italian and asks the shop assistant if it’s a really holy water. She shows her hand to the shelf with bottles.
All souvenir dealers, many of whom did not want to talk to a journalist, saying that they only give authorized talks, agree that Rome’s vision is of great interest in monumental objects with the face of the new Pope.
« You know, the remembrance is a memory, » Mario smiles. At the end of the interview, he shakes his hand to the editor and you immediately feel like in the famous film Robert Benigni’s life is beautiful.
Parolin and tagle
« I think the new Pope will be the Filipino, » says Mila. « The Philippine » is Cardinal Louis Antonio Tagle from Manila.
However, about the seventy -year -old shop owner at Via Porta Angelica opposite the Vatican Wall would like to see the Italian Cardinal Pietra Parolin as a Pope. « He would be a good Pope, » he says with a dreamy voice. But he does not want to say his name.
Even Parolin, although one of the favorites, has no victory. His critics blame him that when he, as a state secretary of the Vatican, negotiated an agreement with China, he was too close to this communist country. However, as the former two Francis knows the functioning of the Vatican and the Catholic Church.
Beata
Balogová
Editor -in -chief
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