The Vatican announces 3 days of the general viewing of the Pope Francis, followed by a funeral on Saturday

The funeral of Pope Francis will be held on Saturday in St. Boutros Square, the Roman Catholic Cardolic Cardolic decided on Tuesday, paving the stage for an official ceremony that attracts leaders from all over the world.

Meanwhile, the Vatican said in a statement that people would be able to push their final respect to Francis in Bazilica St. Peter from Wednesday to Friday. The Pope, who died at the age of 88 on Monday, will perform in the state in his coffin.

The funeral ceremony for the Pope will be held in Saint Peter Square, in the shadow of the Basilica, on Saturday at 10 am local time (4 am in the morning). It will be headed by Cardinal Giovanni Batista Response, Dean of the 91 -year -old Cardinals.

The body of Francis will be transferred to the neighboring Church of St. Peter on Wednesday at nine in the morning local time, in a procession led by the Cardinals. Catholic and general believers will be able to visit from 11 am to midnight on Wednesday, from 7 am to midnight Thursday and from 7 am to 7 pm on Friday.

The Vatican said that Francis, the first Pope of Latin America, died on Monday after suffering a stroke and heart attack. The ink spent five weeks in the hospital earlier this year due to dual pneumonia. But he returned to his home in the Vatican almost a month ago and appears to be recovering, as he appeared in Saint Peter Square on Easter on Sunday.

He began to feel the bouquet at about 5:30 am local time on Monday, and his team attended him immediately. After more than an hour, he farewell to his permanent nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, and slides into a coma.

“He didn’t suffer, and everything happened very quickly,” the Vatican channel told the media.

I was given his time in death at 7:35 am

The world leaders are expected to attend the funeral

On Tuesday, the Vatican released pictures of Francis wearing his clothes and putting on a wooden coffin in the Santa Marta headquarters, where he lived during the 12 -year papacy. Swiss guards stood on both sides of the coffin Kabrazen, including Italian President Sergio RiotHonoring paid.

Among the heads of the countries that are scheduled to attend are Javier Miley, the President of the Argentine Argentine in Francis, Brazilian President Luiz Inosio Lula da Silva, US President Donald Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron.

In a break from tradition, Francis confirmed in the last era that was issued on Monday that he wanted to bury him in the basilica of St. Mary in Rome and not St. Peter, where many of his predecessors were placed for rest.

Pope Francis worked during his term hard to reform the Central Administration of the Vatican, and corruption reached, and after a slow start, she faced the scourge of child abuse within the ranks of the priesthood.

He often clashed with conservatives, nostalgia for the traditional past, which he saw excessively liberal Francis and accommodates minority groups, such as 2LGBTQ+.

His death began in the old ritual movement, as the Church, which is valued at 1.4 billion members, began moving from Pope to another, including breaking the “fisherman’s episode” of the Pope and sealing lead so that it cannot be used by anyone else.

Most of the Cardinals were appointed voting by Francis

The new Pope is usually chosen after 15 to 20 days of the death of the Pope, which means that it should not start before May 6. About 135 Cardinals are qualified to participate in a very secret ballot that can extend over days.

Francis has appointed nearly 80 percent of the Cardinal voters spread all over the world who will choose the next Pope, increase, but not guarantee, the possibility that his progressive policies will continue behind him.

One of the distinctive features of the state of Francis was his decision to appoint the Cardinals, as the church grows faster than mostly stagnant West.

While Europe still has the largest share of Cardinal voters, at about 39 percent, this decreased from 52 percent in 2013, when Francis became the Pope. The second largest group of voters is Asia and Oceania, with about 20 percent.

Many Cardinals are not known outside their countries, and they will have an opportunity to get to know each other in meetings known as public gatherings that occur in the days before the start of the flavor and since the profile of the qualities needed for the next Pope will form.

The Vatican late Monday said that employees and officials inside the Holy See can immediately start paying their respect in front of the Pope’s body at the headquarters of Santa Marta, where he established Francis to the house in 2013, and they wandered in the Grand Apostolic Palace that his ancestors lived.