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Vatican readies for Pope Francis’s funeral as world leaders head to Rome

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Greater than 150,000 individuals from everywhere in the world have considered Pope Francis’s physique because the Vatican makes the ultimate preparations for his funeral on Saturday, an occasion that shall be attended by 50 heads of state and 10 monarchs.

St Peter’s Basilica closed at 2.30am on Friday and reopened three hours later to accommodate the final of the large crowds of mourners who had waited patiently to pay their respects to Francis, who died on the age of 88 on Monday after a stroke. The basilica is scheduled to shut at 7pm and the pope’s coffin shall be sealed at 8pm in a non-public ceremony attended by senior cardinals.

Lots of the funeral company, together with the US president, Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, will arrive in Rome on Friday. Trump and his spouse, Melania, are on account of arrive on Air Drive One at Fiumicino airport at 10.50pm native time.

Hundreds pay respects as Pope Francis moved to St Peter’s to lie in state – video

Joe Biden may also attend, a spokesperson for the previous US president stated on Friday. Biden met Francis on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Italy final June.

At the very least 130 international delegations shall be heading to the Italian capital, together with Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the Prince of Wales.

Seated within the entrance row on the funeral shall be leaders from Francis’s residence nation of Argentina, with Italian leaders within the second row, and different heads of state and royals within the third.

An individual holds a telephone with a picture of Pope Francis. {Photograph}: Claudia Greco/Reuters

After 4 days of silence, the Israeli prime minister supplied his condolences to the pontiff, who had repeatedly condemned the conflict in Gaza.

“The State of Israel expresses its deepest condolences to the Catholic church and the Catholic community worldwide at the passing of Pope Francis,” Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X. “May he rest in peace.”

Israel is just not sending a senior official to the funeral, though its ambassador in Rome will attend.

The funeral requires an enormous and sophisticated safety operation within the Vatican and Rome involving hundreds of Italian police and army, as properly the Vatican’s Swiss Guards, the smallest military on this planet. Troopers in St Peter’s Sq. have been outfitted with weapons that shoot down drones, whereas rooftop snipers and fighter jets are on standby.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the camerlengo operating the Vatican’s day-to-day affairs till a brand new pope is elected, will preside over the so-called ceremony of the sealing of the coffin on Friday night.

Map displaying route of the funeral procession from Vatican Metropolis to Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica

Francis’s funeral mass will start at 10am in St Peter’s Sq. on Saturday and is anticipated to draw 200,000 pilgrims. His easy wood coffin will then be pushed slowly to Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, about 2.5 miles away in Rome’s Esquilino neighbourhood.

The coffin will go away through the again exit of the basilica for a journey by Rome that’s anticipated to take about half-hour.

Francis shall be buried within the floor, his undecorated tomb marked with only one phrase: Franciscus. The burial ceremony shall be a non-public occasion attended by his family members. Folks will be capable of go to the tomb from Sunday morning.

St Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican. {Photograph}: Grzegorz Gałązka/Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock

The funeral mass shall be led by the Italian cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the faculty of cardinals, in what is anticipated to be a solemn ceremony.

“What surprised me was how determined he was to serve the church and love his people with all his energy, to the very end,” the cardinal stated in an interview with La Repubblica printed on Friday.

Amid the funeral planning, hypothesis is rife about who will succeed Francis. Cardinals accepted 9 days of mourning from the date of the funeral, with a conclave – the secret election course of to decide on a brand new pope – due to this fact not anticipated to start earlier than 5 Could.

There isn’t a clear frontrunner, though Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines, and Pietro Parolin, from Italy, are early favourites.

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