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Mourners stitchery successful Rome to grant Pope Francis
Pope Francis' ceremonial has been scheduled for 10 a.m. section clip (4 a.m. EDT) connected Saturday astatine St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican announced Tuesday, pursuing a gathering of the College of Cardinals astatine the Catholic Church's city-state office successful the bosom of Rome. The coffin carrying the pope, who died Monday morning after suffering a changeable and bosom nonaccomplishment astatine the property of 88, volition beryllium brought successful a procession Wednesday morning, accompanied by cardinals, to St. Peter's from his residence astatine Casa Santa Marta, wherever helium died.
The pope's assemblage was laid to remainder Monday successful a coffin successful the chapel of his Santa Marta residence. The Vatican released the archetypal photos and video connected Tuesday of Francis successful his coffin, wearing a reddish robe with the papal mitre connected his caput and a rosary intertwined successful his hands.
Pope Francis' assemblage is seen successful a coffin successful the chapel of the Santa Marta residence astatine the Vatican, wherever the precocious pontiff resided and past died astatine the property of 88, connected April 21, 2025.
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The images showed cardinals and different religion officials performing what the Vatican said was the ceremonial Confirmation of the Pope's Death and praying implicit his body.
The interim head of the Vatican, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, an Irish-American who volition play a large relation successful the ceremonial and consequent conclave events successful the coming weeks, volition preside implicit the procession and the ritual transportation of the pope's assemblage to St. Peter's.
The pontiff volition prevarication successful authorities up of his ceremonial astatine the basilica from Wednesday morning, the Vatican said. The ceremonial volition beryllium celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re.
The papal ceremonial is breached down into three abstracted phases, oregon "stations." They are the mentation of the body, the viewing of the body, and past the burial.
Who volition travel to Pope Francis' funeral?
The ceremonial astatine St. Peter's Basilica connected Saturday ceremonial volition gully "Patriarchs, Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops, and priests from crossed the globe," the Vatican said. It volition besides beryllium attended by a fig of satellite leaders and different dignitaries.
The pope's coffin volition beryllium carried done the 500-year-old basilica's alleged "door of death" to the near of the main altar, and a azygous doorbell volition toll.
President Trump said Monday that helium and archetypal woman Melania would attend, arsenic did Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and France's Emmanuel Macron.
China's authorities indicated Tuesday that nary decisions had been made regarding which officials mightiness be the work astatine the Vatican.
What happens aft Pope Francis' funeral?
After the ceremonial Mass astatine St. Peter's, Pope Francis' coffin volition beryllium taken to the Basilica of St. Mary Major successful Rome, wherever helium volition beryllium entombment. The pope chose to beryllium buried astatine the smaller basilica, which is astir 4 miles away, extracurricular the Vatican walls. He prayed astatine St. Mary's often, earlier and aft planetary trips during his 12-year pontificate.
Between 15 and 20 days aft the pope's death, the Cardinal Electors will stitchery astatine the Vatican and seal themselves disconnected from the satellite down closed doors for the papal conclave, the centuries-old process of choosing the adjacent pope.
Only cardinals nether the property of 80 — presently a radical of astir 135 — are eligible to ballot successful a conclave.
Inside the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, the cardinals volition formed ballots for their prime to pb the church, repeating the process until a candidate emerges with a two-thirds-plus-one majority. The insubstantial ballots are burned aft each circular of voting, sending up achromatic fume to awesome nary prime has been reached yet, and yet achromatic fume to uncover that a caller pope has been selected.
Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's overseas editor, based successful the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, anterior to which helium worked for The Associated Press successful Washington, D.C., and London.
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