The visit of the grave of Pope Francis will be open to the audience from Sunday (27).
The Pope was buried on Saturday (26) in a A special ceremony in the Santa Maria Magior ChurchIn Rome.
A coffin with the body of Francis went through a path with 150,000 people in Rome before they arrived in Basilica, according to the Vatican news.
This Sunday, from 7 am, local time, (two hours in Brazilia), the doors will be opened to visit the believers in the grave.
During the afternoon, at 16 hours, at the time of Rome, (11 am Brasilia time) Cardinan College The Mass on the site will meet.
The Pope asked for a simple grave on a will
The will of Pope Francis, signed on July 29, 2022, The ink sought to enhance his will to bury him.
He expressed that he wanted to put a welfare in Santa Maria Magioma Basilica, in a simple grave, dug on the ground, without decoration and only with the inscription “Franciskos”.
Finally, Francis left the message “The Lord was the suffering that was present in the last part of my life for world peace and brotherhood among peoples.”
The document says: “I have always been documented in my life and my priestly and rival service to the mother of our Lord, Santa Maria. Therefore, I ask my remains to rest while waiting for the Day of Resurrection in the papal basilica in Santa Maria Magor.”
Located at the top of one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built, Santa Maria Maggiore is one of the four papal peas. Its bell is the highest in the Italian capital, 75 meters high, and its location on the hill makes it the highest point in the city.
The legend says that the Virgin Mary sought to Pope Liberius and an Italian aristocrat asking the church built in his honor in a place that will be miraculously revealed.
The Eskleino Mountain in Rome was identified as the place after snow fell on its saying on August 35 at the height of the summer. Currently, the “Snow Miracle” is celebrated in Basilica on August 5 of each year.
The church was assigned as it is today by Pope Sisto III in 431. The mosaic is from this time, and the interior also holds classic plurals looting from other buildings, although they are involved in a new classic interface built in the eighteenth century.
The church has always had a special meaning for Pope Francis, who used to visit on Sunday morning to honor the Virgin Mary.
Francis is the first Pope for more than a century Burn out of the Vatican walls.