The body of Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholics and the President of the Vatican, who died in the Vatican on April 21, was delivered to the Basilica of St. Peter and openly for visits by condolences.
The body of Pope Francis was taken out of the guest house of Santa Mart, which he used as his residence, accompanied by the Swiss guards and priests, archbishops and cardinals of the Catholic Church, and delivered to the Basilica of St. Peter, the ceremony took place on the morning of April 23.
During transportation, people gathered on the same area of the same name with the basilica, tried to see the Francis dad for the last time.
The body brought in an open coffin was transmitted for condolences to the Basilica of St. Peter. Many people stood in line in Basilica to express condolences.
Italian President Sergio Mattarell also paid a special visit with condolences.
The Francis funeral ceremony will be held on Saturday April 26th.
Pope Francis died in his residence in the Vatican on April 21 at the age of 88.
In February, the Pope Francis transferred severe bronchitis and was hospitalized on the 14th Jamelli Hospital in Rome, where he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. The treatment lasted 38 days and the pontiff was discharged on March 23.
After the dad’s discharge, the Francis was prescribed a two -month recovery period. One of his doctors, Professor Sergio Alfieri, said in an interview with Corriere Della Sera on March 25, that during treatment, the pontiff was twice on the verge of death.
Cardinal Joseph Farrell, on April 21, said that Pope Francis died at 07.35 local time. In the evening of the same day, Vatican said that the cause of the death of the pope was a stroke, coma and irreversible heart failure.