For his last trip, Pope Francis, dressed in red clothes and a traditional white cassock, will be taken to the Basilica or Santa María Maggiore outside the Vatican on Saturday, where he will be buried.
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio de Regina Maria Sivori and Mario José Francisco in Argentina, died on Monday, April 21, 2025, or a stroke and a heart trial, according to the Vatican.
At the beginning of Easter Monday, Pope Francis suffered a stroke, followed by a comma.
The former head of the Catholic Church then entered into irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse and died at age 88, according to the Vatican.
His last public appearance was Easter Sunday, when he provided blessings to multitude of faithful in the Plaza de San Pedro.
On February 14, 2025, Pope Francis was admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, where he received a medical diagnosis of double pneumonia and remained hospitalized for 38 days.
What to expect the funeral of Pope Francis?
On Tuesday morning, around 60 Catholic cardinals held their first meeting since the death of Pope Francis, from 9 am to 10:30 am local time in Rome.
The meeting begged with a prayer for the decisive pontiff.
The high -ranking priests swore to obey the rules of the funeral plans made by Pope Francis last year.
Finally, Bergoglio’s final will and will be read.
He requested that the tomb only read “Francisco”, not to mention his 12 -year -old papacy, a unique change of the equipment of the teams.
On Monday in Rome, a Rosario service was a hero for Pope Francis in the Plaza de San Pedro by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti.
From Wednesday at 9 am local time (03:00 ET) and continuing to the funeral, the body of Pope Francis will lie in the Basilica of San Pedro, where the Mourters can present their respects.
The procession of the body of Pope Francis will pass through the Plaza de Santa Marta, the Plaza de los Protomartiros Romanos and the Arch of the bells to Pedro de Pedro before entering the Basilica of the Vatican.
The mourners are welcome to lend their respect in the Basilica of San Pedro in the following days and schedules:
- Wednesday, April 23, 2025, starting at 11 am-medianoche (0500-1800 ET)
- Thursday, April 24, 2025, from 7 am-medianoche (0100-1800 ET)
- Friday April 25, 2025, from 7 am to 7 pm (0100-1300 ET)
What to expect from Pope Francis’s funeral
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 10 am local time, the life of Pope Francis will be celebrated the duration of a Mass presided by its most reverend Eminence Cardinal Giovanni Battista, dean of the Faculty of Cardinals.
Bishops, priests, cardinals, archbishops and patriarchs around the world will work the service.
The events will conclude with the beginning of the novels, a symbolic and procedural period of nine days of prayer, mourning and memory.
Another funeral mass will be carried out on Sunday by Cardinal Italian and Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.
Pope Francis will be tasks for the Basilica or Santa María Maggiore for the burial.
What will Pope Francis say?
The 266 Pontiff revealed his wishes of burial only a few days after being chosen in 2013.
“It was his belief that may not live long,” said Neomi Deanda, a trained constructive theologian, Fox News Digital. “He was already 70 when he was chosen Pope, and wanted to be prepared when God called him home.”
“On behalf of the Blessed Trinity. Amen.
“Feeling that the sunset of my earthly life is approaching and with an lively hope in eternal life, I want to express my testamentary only with respect to the place of my burial.
“I have always trusted my life and the priestly and episcopal ministry to the mother of our Lord, Mary, the most holy. Therefore, I ask my mortal remains resting waiting on the day of the resurrection in the papal basilica of Santa María Maggiore.
“I want my last earthly trip to end in this former Marian sanctuary, where I went to pray at the beginning and end of each apostolic trip to find out the immaculate mother and thank her for docile and maternal attention.
“I ask that my grave is prepared in the hole in the corridor between the Paulina chapel (Chapel of Salus Populi Romani) and the sforza chapel of the aforementioned papal basilica as indicated in the attached annex.
“The grave must be on earth; simple, without partular decorum and with the only inscription: Francisco.
“The expenses for the preparation of my funeral will be covered with the sum of the benefactor that I have organized, to be transferred to the papal basilica or Santa María Maggiore and of which I have the appropriate instructions to Mons. Rolandas Makrickas.
“That the Lord gives the deserved reward to those who have loved me and will continue to pray for me. The suffering that was made in the last part of my life that I offered to the Lord for peace in the world and Brother Hood among the peoples.”
