The Vatican published the footage of Pope Francis in an open coffin

22. Apr 2025 at 10:11 I Updated at 10:24

Vatican. Funeral Pope Francis will take place on Saturday at 10.00 HV Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. Cardinals decided on Wednesday morning, news agencies report.

On Wednesday, the Vatican also published photographs of the deceased Pope Francis in an open coffin dressed in a red chasuble with a mitra on his head and rosary in the founded palms.

The published shots were taken in the chapel of the House of St. Marta, where František lived during his pontificate.

They then transfer the Pope’s coffin to the Basilica of St. Peter, where the Pope will be able to honor the public, says Sky News.

Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerango of the Holy Roman Church, chairing a ceremony of confirmation of death and depositing the Pope’s body in the coffin, and three assistants will supervise the break of the Pope’s ring and his lead seal so that no one else could use them.

The Vatican also published shots of the seaing of the door on the papal apartment on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace and on the apartment on the second floor of the Holy House of St. Martha, where the Pope lived.

From the day of the Pope’s funeral, the period of nine days, the so -called Novendiale, has been followed, during which the Mass is served for the Pope. Novendiale start with the funeral mass itself and the other days of masses served, for example, in the chapter of the patriarchal basilicles or in the Roman Curia.

The funeral date will be decided by cardinals who met in the Vatican at the General Congregation on Tuesday at 9.00 am.

Pope Francis died only a day after Easter Sunday granted a traditional blessing of Urbi et Orbi (the city Rome and the world). Less than a month ago, he was released from the Roman hospital, where he spent more than a month for bronchitis, which later grew into two -sided pneumonia. František has been at the forefront of the Catholic Church since March 2013.