The basilica is closed from 6am to 7 am, the planned opening time and, according to the French news agency AFP, lined up early on Thursday to pay their respects.
Vatican said something 48,600 people passed Francis“The coffin of 11 hours on Wednesday, when public tribes started, until 8:30 on Thursday, AFP reported. Later Thursday, Vatican put the number at 61,000, said AFP.
Vatican also announced that the Pontifia’s grave can visit the beginning on Sunday morning, the AFP reported.
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Basilica bathes in the crowd of silence as prosecutors from all over the world, the laying proceeds, the main passage to pay their last tribute to Francis, which died on Monday after a crush of stroke and heart.
Hours spent on the line on static over Della Conciliazione over Sv. Petra and through the holy door in the Basilica enabled the third possible to find the community around the inheritance of inclusion and modest person.
Emiliano Fernandez, Catholic from Mexico, waited all over midnight, and after two hours he still didn’t get to the basilica.
“I don’t care how much time I wait here. It’s just an opportunity to (show) how I admired Francisco in my life,” Fernandez said, whose admiration of the Pope was processed by Mexico. “I think it’s because of compliance with him and a big person, it’s worth waiting.”
Among the first day the mourners were a church group of 14-year-olds near Milan who arrived in US suspended by the canonization of the first Millennial SaintLike a woman who prayed for a pope for successful surgery and an Italian family that brought her little children to see the Pope.
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“We came because we didn’t bring them when he was alive, so we thought we’d lead them to the last farewell, who was going out on Wednesday with his three children in the wheelchair.” But I think they were good, but I think they were good, but I didn’t think they were good, but I wouldn’t really understand because they didn’t understand yet because they didn’t understand each other yet. ”
Like many others, the Family Scorpi from Calabria was in Rome on Easter Holiday, just to be happy with News about Francis death on Easter Monday.
From the commitment to the Pope and his message of inclusion joined the processional procession that changed from St. Peter’s square through the holy door of the basilica, and repentance among them conquering in the form of gathering during the Jubilee Holy Year. From there, the line has expanded down the central passage of the basilica on the Pope simple wooden coffin.
After three days of public viewing, a Funeral mass including the heads of the state will take place on Saturday at St. Peter’s square. The Pope will then be buried in Niche within St. Mary’s main basilica, near his favorite Icon of Madona.
Francis’s death, which was 88, limited a 12-year-old pontification that his concerns were characterized by the poor and his message of inclusion, but they criticized him and some conservatives who alienated his progressive prospects.
A Links of priests, bishop and cardinal accompanied by Forcis body on Wednesday On the way from private viewing within the Vatican to St. Peter Square. Pageantry is opposed to human interactions of the pity in public view.
Francis is in a state in an open coffin, located on the ramps facing grieving, with four Swiss guards that stand in attention. While the crowd reached the coffin, many raised their smartphones to take the photo.
One type of accompanying older women with a cane went to hit her, “my pope is gone.”
Such despair was rare. The mood was more than gratitude for the Pope, which, for example, had learned many people to open their minds.
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