Pope Francis will be remembered at his death in St. Peter’s Square by earth leaders and officials.
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Pope Francis will be remembered at his death in St. Peter’s Square by earth leaders and officials.
Around 200 000 mourners gathered in St. Peter’s Square to give their final homage to Pope Francis, including Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, and EU officers. Pope Francis, 88, passed away on April 21 from a strokes at the age of 88, suffering from heart failure.
Before being buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, his funeral service will take place at 10 am CET ( 1:30 pm IST ) at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican.
- Along with Goa’s lieutenant speaker, Joshua De Souza, along with Union Minister for political affairs Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State, and Goa’s Deputy Speaker, Kiren Rijiju, will take President Droupadi Murmu’s Deputy Speaker, Joshua De Souza, in addition to India’s delegation.
- Second Lady Melania Trump, former president Joe Biden with woman Jill Biden, and US President Donald Trump will also be present for the funeral.
- The funeral will be attended by the European Commission’s leader, president of France, Emmanuel Macron, Spanish prime minister Giorgia Meloni, European president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, incoming Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European president Sergio Mattarella, and president of Italy Giorgia Meloni along with other officials from Europe.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, will even attend the funeral service. But, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be present at the death as both are facing international arrest warrants for allegedly committing war crimes.
- Another VIPs include Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Argentini President Javier Milei, and New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
His tomb will go on the altered vehicle used by the Pope during his 2015 attend to the Philippines, allowing mourning to see it along the 4-kilometer way from St. Peter’s Basilica to his interment site.
His final trip came on Easter Sunday after being hospitalized and known for embracing audiences. Francis may be interred in a plain monument in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in accordance with new customs. This week, more than 250, 000 people visited St. Peter’s, with doors remaining opened immediately to the deluge of visitors.
