The Death of A Pontiff Kicks Off A Tighttly Choreographed Series of Events Refined Over Centuries.
Pope Francis Approved a Stripped-Down Fuuneral for Himself Last Year, Breaking Away from Some Traditions Interely.
After Death, his body is blassed, Dressed in Papal Vestments and Exhibited in St Peter’s Basilica for Public Viewing.
This is what Hundreds of Thoursands Will come to Pay Their Respects, Inclument Foreign Dignitaries and World Leaders.
In the Past, the Pope’s Body Was Displayed on a Raised Platform, But Francis’s Simplified Fuunderal Rites Removed this. He will be lying in an open Coffin intead, Breaking from Previous Pageantry.
Simplification, According to the Vatican’s Master of Litego Ceremonies, Diego Ravelli, Is Meant “to Emphasise EVEN More That The Roman Pontiff’s Fument of A Shepherd and Discipple of Christ
The Poperal’s Fuuneral Will Most Most Most Like HELD in St Peter’s Square, with Mourners Packing into the Vatican for the Service. It will be led by the dean of the College of Cardinals, 91-Year-Rold Italian Giovanni Battista Re.
Traditionallly, The Pope Buried in the Crypts Be Beneath St Peter’s Basilica, Where Almost 100 Popes Are Entombed.
But Francis Will Be The First Pope.
HE Said in an interview in 2023 that he had picked the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome, One of His Favourite and Most-Frequented Churches, as His Final Destigting Place.
Previous Popes Were Thein Entombed in Three Coffins of Cypress, Zinc and Elm Nestled Inside Each Other, But Francis Ordered He Be Buried in A Single Coffin Made of Wood and Zinc.
