Yesterday was the Transfer of Pope Francis Coffin (
full video here from YouTube). I do not have much to write about it. Most of it is walking, and there are a whole bunch of Cardinal (and other clergy) in choir. I also saw somewhere that the Cope (which was a beautiful cope, and it was nice to see) was one that was used by Pope Benedict XVI. It's also nice to see Pope Francis in chasuble. He has not been the main celebrant of a public mass since 2022! (According to my best research (i.e.
a single article). Since then every mass which he has been at in public he has been sitting in a cope, up until before his hospitilization and passing. Interestingly enough, Pope John Paul II, at his last public Christmas mass, celebrated the mass sitting down. Now that is not to say that Pope Francis did not celebrate private masses sitting down or at all. As well, like Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI before him, he is wearing a plain white mitre, as well as holding a Rosary.
Pope Francis will also be buried at St. Mary Major Basillica in Rome, where about six other popes have also been buried. Pope Francis is NOT the first pope to NOT be buried outside of St. Peter's Basillica. The last pope to be buried outside of Rome was in 1903.
Requiscat in Pace, Papa Francisco + Eternal Rest Grant unto Him, O Lord; and Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him
Interestingly enough, in the official Vatican Website it is called the "Translation" of the Coffin, and many other places use the same term. In here I use transfer, and others do as well.
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