At 6 p.m., St Peter's Square was opened and the first pilgrims began to fill the sectors in anticipation of the ceremony mass of Pope Francis, which will begin at 10 p.m. The Vatican territory is simply a "red zone" in which extraordinary safety measures were taken. For 3 days the Holy Father said goodbye in the Vatican Basilica a 4th million people. In the last hours before the coffin there were thousands of young people who, according to the calendar of the Holy Year, came to Rome for the Teen Jubilee.
– The silence and emptiness that prevailed that night around the erstwhile Vatican were impossible, after those days erstwhile the untroubled crowds flooded the streets – spoke in a conversation with KAI Pietro Caffoni. He is 1 of thousands of volunteers who have been keeping an eye on the order at via Ottawano since dawn, which is 1 of the main arteries leading from the subway to St. Peter's Square.
As he reported, people waited all night to be able to get to the nearest sectors – they had sleeping bags and carimats with them. For those who failed to enter the Vatican Basilica, many telebims were set up throughout the area, on which the ceremony liturgy will be broadcast directly, and then the conduct through the centre of Rome.
A immense Interest in the Funeral
Both the Vatican and the centre of Rome are under peculiar supervision. In addition to the jubilee volunteers and troops of the Italian civilian Defense, thousands of additional police and soldiers came to the streets, who were brought to the capital from all over Italy. No 1 is amazed anymore by two-man patrols sweeping the sky through binoculars in search of drones and ready to be dropped. – It's expected to be average service, but it's my privilege. I've never been to Rome, and now I'm serving a fewer meters about Bernini's Column. said 1 of the soldiers.
City officials estimation that 200,000 believers will participate in the ceremony liturgy. It is hard to estimation how many people will be gathered on the way of the ceremony procession, which will go to the Basilica of Our woman the Greater, where the pope will be buried. Lamberto Gianini, prefect of Rome, stressed that the full safety device is ready: – People request to be calm, during these hours they should not worry about anything unnecessarily –.
White-red flags
The authoritative Polish delegation with president Andrzej Duda will participate in the ceremony liturgy in St Peter's Square. The Polish Ambassador to the Holy See Adam Kwiatkowski and the admin of the Polish church in Rome, Fr Tomasz Jarosz, will besides be present.
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