Visual guide and terms

Pope Francis’ funeral will be easier than in the previous dads, following the instructions he has outlined.

But as the head of state and leader of more than a billion Catholics around the world, it will still be a sight of the ceremony and traditions.

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Archbishops and bishops will start gathering at 8:30 local time (07:30 BST) In the Konstantinian wing, the corridors adjacent to St. Peter’s Basilica.

At the same time, Catholic priests gather at St. Peter’s Square.

Half an hour later, at 9:00 local timePatriarchs from the Orthodox Church and Cardinals will be gathered in the chapel of St. Sebastian, in the Basilica where Pope John Paul II lie.

They will go to the funeral procession that accompanies the Pope’s coffin, who spent the last four days in the center of St. Peter’s basil.

The funeral begins at 10:00 If the coffin is placed in front of St. Peter’s basilica. The service is headed by the Cardinal College Dean, Cardinal Giovanni Batista.

Guests and dignitaries will sit closer to the basilica and coffins, with thousands of other clergy and members of the public on the Square of St. Peter and around him, similar to the funeral for Pope Benedict XVI shown below.

The service will end with prayers for Pope Francis and the final gratitude – the final prayer if the Pope is officially entrusted to God.

This means the beginning of a nine -day mourning period called Novemdiales with a Mass that is held every day in his memory.

Officials expect at least 250,000 members of the public will be present at the funeral, and there are 170 heads of state or government.

Prince William will represent King Charles III, continuing the precedent established in 2005, when the then Prince of Wales was present at the funeral of Pope John Paul II on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.

There will also be hundreds of clergy members, and each group has a certain DRES for service.

For bishops and archbishops, liturgical clothing for burial includes alcA white tunic that holds the traditional cord called rainbow. friendlyshort linen fabric to cover the neck and red townA solemn cape, in honor of the Pope. Finally, they put on simple white laundry or miter’s silk.

Cardinals wear similar clothes, but they can be distinguished by their more decorated Damask images that look cream, not white.

The priests wear simpler clothes and a long scarf over a tunic called a red staff.

Leaders, or patriarchs, Orthodox churches will wear their own Mithri style, outline jackets and decorated with fabric called aphorionin colors according to their specific traditions.

After the body of Francis’ body – dressed in a red pigeon and Damascus and a golden papal miter – will be transported to the Basilica Santa Majiora in Rome for burial. He will become the first Pope from Leo Sii, who died in 1903, buried outside the Vatican.

Traditionally, the remains of the Pope would be laid the day before the funeral in three enclosed coffins made of cypress, lead and oak.

Cypress the coffin symbolized humility and mortality; External oak coffin, a sign of “dignity and strength” and a lead coffin, welded to preserve residues and prevent falsification.

However, last year, Pope Francis asked him to bury in a simpler wooden coffin with the interior of zinc.

This is a coffin that will be seen on the ritual service.

According to Monsnar Diego Ravel, the Vatican Master of the Liturgical Ceremony, the request emphasized “even more that the burial of the Roman Pontiff is a shepherd and a disciple of Christ, and not a powerful man of this world.”

Pope Francis was a Jesuit, a Catholic religious order of priests, known for his devotion to education and missionary work.

He was also a devoted Virgin Mary, and, as such, he decided to bury Santa Maggiore, located near the Vatican walls in the center of Rome.

The Church houses the Papley Ramani Salus, the Byzantine icon of the Virgin, which is believed to have been made by the Holy Luke of the Evangelist and was used by Jesuit orders around the world.

In my will, written in 2022, Pope Francis said: “Throughout my life and during my ministry as a priest and a bishop, I have always trusted myself the mother of our Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary.”

“I want my last earthly journey to end precisely in this ancient Marian shrine, where I always stopped praying at the beginning and at the end of each apostolic journey, confidently entrusted my intentions to the Immaculate Mother and thanks to her delicate and maternal help,” he wrote.

On his first day, the Pope left the Vatican in 2013 to pray in Santa Maggiore.

Seven Pope is buried in the same Basilica in the ornamented graves, but the Argentine Pontiff asked his grave to be in the lateral passage, between the Polina Chapel (the Salus Ramani chapel) and the Sforza chapel, near the statue known as Mary Regina Pacis (Maria, Queen).

“Near this Queen of Peace, to which I have always sought help and whose hug I have been looking for more than a hundred times during my pontificate,” he explained.

The Pope also asked his grave to be in the ground, simple and only carried the inscription “Francis”, the Latin version of the chosen name.