People’s hug for the Pope: “A beacon of hardness and hope in times of chaos”

Loreena Leonardi Yedylli Pikini – Vatikan Sidad

A distinctive black bag with the inscription in the Spanish “values” of which hangs the San Lorenzo Red and Blue Clip. In the background is an earthy road, with the symbol of peace in the foreground. Below, where the small path ends towards the horizon, an orange life and a beach of tin next to the outbreak of the disease. Peace, immigrants, creation. On the bottom of the left, registration: “inheritance”. What is the title of the job, this morning appeared in Borgo Pio, was signed by Maubal, the Roman artist, the street, who is famous for his 2014 grandmother, which represents Pope Francis Superman. Indeed, he had a black bag full of “values” and after twelve years, luggage still exists, or rather two steps from the Vatican, a concrete legacy for those who today cry the Argentine ink.

It is amazing that, after a few minutes and after a few hundred meters, in Bazilica San Pedro where the late Pope is exposed to the veneration of the believers, who speak the term “values” are the Spanish sisters Irene, Theresa and Sofia, from Bilbao. “The Pope has shown the importance of peace and combating against discrimination,” explains the greatest of the three teenagers: They are sitting on the ground. They just praised the coffin, while they were in Rome on vacation with their families and realizing participating in a “special event.”

Long lines for the latter ISIS

The unusual nature of the situation is not only seen through the massive presence of the forces of the regime and the volunteers of mercy and civil protection. During the past twelve hours, tens of thousands of people gave the last farewell to the door. Flowed without this morning at 5:30, when the basilica was closed for more than an hour. The doors were opened again around seven in the morning for the believers who expected: Before transferring it to the field, the waiting passed in a quiet silence along the Autavian via, in the vicinity of VIA Risorgimento and in Via Di Porta Angelica.

The Pope “Hadith and not forgotten”

At the Sant’anna entrance, behind the barriers, with two strings, Leonardo takes their daughters for three and six years. The original of Clascibetta, in the province of Enna, was in Umbra when the news of the death of the Pope came. They left, without fear of disturbing the family’s plans. In his heart, the desire not to miss the unforgettable “modern” greeting of the Pope, and adapt, “for the lessons of humility” and “towards the most needy”.

Near remains in the heart

For many, Pope Francis’s farewell joined the long -standing pilgrimage, as happened with Anastasia and her husband Baskwal, originally from Molvita, in Apollia. “We had to be there,” the couple explains, talking about “late conversion” and multiple parish obligations. In particular, they remember a meeting with the Pope in March 2024, accompanied by Casa Santa Marta to obtain the Mass of his friend, the head of the regional bishop Vinsenzo Tortoro, after his appointment to the Apostolic Noreno in Paraguay. “Francisco received everyone,” and I was feeling shy a little, waiting for a Basili to come close, “explains the transmitted woman.” When he realized the Pope, he took his hand and said: “Don’t worry, I never hurt anyone.” This rapprochement will remain in our hearts. “

Each one with a cross

Barbara, Milano, was also forced, but originally from Vivetro, to cross the holy door next to her sister, but she feels that “everyone who waited to see the Pope holds their cross silently.” Pablo VI funeral in his childhood memories: “We were there,” says a point in the left contract in Plaza de San Pedro, but it is transferred when he remembered the last time he embraced Pope Francis. He says, taking a picture of his cell phone: “The jubilee was of mercy and stopped talking to us for a few seconds.” Everyone asked: “Do you remember the prayer for me?” I expected it and answered me: “And I did that for you!”

Grateful

Also in Rome, on the occasion of the Holy Year, the group was accompanied by Don Leo Heinrich, the priest of the Archbisha Laipling, at the diocese of Ratuna (Germany). “I feel very grateful,” he continues, “because he had a wonderful door like Francisco. We will miss his mercy and his commitment to the poor.” In addition to the ability to transfer difficult messages such as reception to immigrants: “Even if it is tired, we note that the German cruelty allows it to recognize the two articles. The Mediterranean Sea.

Life and stories from all over the world

Christian and Ameca, the latter in a traditional suit, arrived from Nigeria to study the law of ecclesiastical and theology, respectively, at Gregoria Pontifical University. They will not forget “the voice of the Pope presented by the poor” and his example on “service to the church as a shepherd to go out to everyone.”

AdDolaata depends on crutches, with her daughter, crying on her weak health; The Lebanese, the Lebanese, who pray every day in Bazilica, 9 years old, Federico, with her mother, who lacks the Pope of “the confidence he had in the children.” Maria, eighty – on a wheelchair, that combines screaming forces “is my love, the Pope!”: The arrival of Ostia thanks to UNESCE – “for thirty years I paid the wheelchairs, and now they pay me” – the former volunteer was unable to miss a “long and last” embrace “with Francisco.

Beyond the ego

Michael and Sebin, a German marriage to the English, arrives after a pilgrimage followed in the footsteps of San Francisco de Assis. Although they are Protestants, they cannot hide their affection and appreciation by the Pope: “We have always liked his openness to all people. We learned that we really see others no longer focus on our ego. ”

Hope for chaos Times

James, from Sydney, Australia, also comes from the end of the world: Bergolio returned “attention to the care of the poor worldwide and was a great world religious leader, and a lighthouse and hope at a time when chaos prevails in the world. I hope all this will continue after him.”

The Pope with a special relationship with the southern Americans, with those who, like him, came from another world, from another language, from another dimension. “When the first Pope was chosen in South America, I really felt proud,” says Juliet Romero, a young Peru, who lives in Rome and is voluntary in Saint Society. “We all helped us on another continent and spoke another language to feel at home.”