The sudden Pope in San Pedro to pray before the grave of St. Pius X

Salvator Cinosio – Vatican City

It was almost one in the afternoon in the San Pedro Church when I heard women in the halls: “The Pope is here! The Pope is here!” After a surprise last Sunday, when the 20,000 believers gathered in Plaza de San Pedro from the Jubilee of the patients, they suddenly arrived at the Pope in a wheelchair. Less than ten minutes to pray before the grave of Pope Pius X, the Pope who was always said very soon and who came to pray last Sunday.

Hundreds of people revive the Pope

But a few minutes was enough to start hundreds of people who came to visit San Pedro at the time and from the organization there And, as these attendees say, gather to salute the Pope. Among them, there were also some restaurant owners who were busy at the time after a curtain in the interior works he had in recent months by Fabbrica Di San Pietro, who shook Jorge Mario Bergolio, from many children who blessed him and entire pilgrims in Rome on the jubilee occasion.

“A lot of passion, my vision is cloudy of tears and I could not even take a picture,” Monsignor Valerio de Palma told San Pedro to the media. He had returned to Sacristy at about 12.50, ten minutes after he was attracted to the noise and saw the wheelchair with the Pope, which was pushed by Masimiliano Strappetti, personal health assistant. Everywhere there was gendarmes trying to maintain the system.

Blessings and greetings

The Pope crossed the door of prayer and then went to the altar of the chair, and finally, to the grave of St. Pius X for prayer. In the end, some people received, as much as possible, Monsignor Di Palma. No word from Francisco, only gestures. The gestures of rapprochement and affection towards those who found it, even some of them are in line with taking a moment of rapprochement with the bishops of Rome at this time, as their general manifestations became more rare: “They all ran with the knowledge that the Pope suddenly came.”

Francisco gave people with blankets to their legs to protect themselves from the cold and nose of the oxygen: “We have been transferred to see it like this, civil, simple. Everyone cried, even security guards. ” Some children approached the Pope, she was a blessed lady in crying. Why tears? Because it is a sign that he has recovered, yes, she suffers, but she is close. I was affected by his eyes: big, clear. Humor look and care. Nothing said: He received and blessed. I said: “holiness, we look forward to it here.” I smile.