Here’s how Pope Francis’ funeral will break with tradition

Even before Saturday Funeral for Pope Francis In the Vatican, the leader known as “The Pope of the People” has already broken with some traditions in the ways in which the pontiff bury. Your body has been I lie in the state For three days in the Basilica of San Pedro, where public members have been presenting adjustments to present their respects.

Unlike their predecessors, which were buried in three nested coffins, one made of cypress, one made of lead and one made of elM, the famous and humble Francis chose to be buried in a simple wooden coffin.

That change occurred as part of the recent update Funeral planning For Pontiffs, published at the end of last year and approved by Francis.

Ordo Exsquiarum Romani Pontificis updated, as it is called in Latin, also says that the public can see the Pope’s body in an open coffin.

Another rest of tradition is the direction that the determination of the death of the Pope should take place in a chapel, not in his room.

“A second edition [of the official funeral rites for pontiffs] It became necessary, in the first place, because Pope Francis has requested it, as he himself has several occasions of the need to simplify and adapt certain rites so that the celebration of the funeral of the Bishop of Rome can express better to express himself [sic] The faith of the Church in the Risen Christ, “Archbishop Diego Ravelli, a master of apostolic ceremonies, said in a statement published by the Vatican at the time of the update.

Archbishop Ravelli also said: “The renewed rite also needed to emphasize equally more than the funeral of the novel Pontiff is that of a pastor and disciple of Christ and not of a powerful person of this world.”

The other great rest of Papal funeral tradition It is the place where Francis has chosen to be buried.

In his Last will and testamentPublished shortly after his death, Francis requested that he be buried outside the Vatican, in the papal basilica of St. Mary Major (Santa Maria Maggiore, in Italian). Hi, he visited that old church in Rome to pray before and after his trips.

Many potatoes rest within the Vatican, in the Vatican Grutas, a vault system at the lower level of the Basilica of San Pedro, but the Basilica says that seven potatoes over the centuries have been buried in St. Mary Major.

“I want my last earthly trip to end precisely in this former Marian sanctuary, where I went to pray at the beginning and end of each apostolic trip to confidence with confidence my intentions to the immaculate mother and Thanhank.

“The grave must be on Earth; simple, without particular decoration and with the only inscription: Francisco,” is specific. That is also a deviation from other potatoes whose tombs include an inscription in honor of their papacy.