The cardinal Gionvanni Battista He assured that he Pope Francis “Despite his serious health problems, he delivered until the last day.” The purple that heads the exequial mass in the Plaza de San Pedro stressed that the Supreme Pontiff “He always worked in favor of the poor.”
“He led a church eager to deal with people’s problems, capable of enlightening each one beyond any creed,” he said, after mentioning Francisco’s particularity sensitivity to addressing the relationship with the faithful.
Cardinal Battista added that “innumerable were his gestures in the name of refugees.” “It is significant that his first trip went to Lampedusaan island with thousands of people drowned in the sea, ”Francisco traveled there a few weeks after starting his pontificate, in full migrants crisis in Europeand pronounced a hard homily before the powers and a society “that is customary to see people die.”
“The center has always put the Gospel of mercy, underlining that God does not tire of forgiving, always forgiving those who ask for forgive Encyclical Fratelli Tutti.
The dean of the Cardenalicio College, in charge of officiating the funeral, added that “in the face of the outbreak of so many wars in these years, with inhuman horrors and innumerable dead and destruction, Pope Francis has not ceased to lift his voice imploring peace and inviting the sensibility, honest negotiation to find possible solutions.” A pontiff who was “among the people, with his heart open to all and who dedicated himself without measure to the last of the earth and the marginalized,” he described.
The funeral of Pope Francis It is celebrated this Saturday at the San Pedro Square before almost 150 delegations. Nearly 200,000 people crowd the square and the conciliation route, the Great Avenue that precedes it, according to the Vatican.
The Plaza de San Pedro, with a capacity for 40,000 people, reached its maximum capacity and the authorities relocated to the tide of faithful in the surroundings, where giant screens were placed to follow the ceremony, according to the EFE agency.
Source: Ambito
