A sincere crowd pays the last respect for Pope Francis

The doors were opened in front of Bachelica, St. Peter, at 5:40 am on Friday, and people immediately began to intervene to push their recent respect for Pope Francis, who put his body in a simple wooden coffin below the vast dome designed by Michelangelo. Two hours later, this river was a river, as thousands moved via Basilica on the last day they could say goodbye to the door.

Francis’s funeral was appointed on Saturday. After that, he will be buried throughout the city in the Santa Maria Magior Church, a place dear to his heart.

St. Peter was almost a clock since the transfer of Francis’s body here on Wednesday from the Vatican Hospitality House, where he lived and died. The Vatican said that by 8 am on Friday, 128,000 people passed.

Depending on the time of the day, it may take to wait to pass the coffin for hours. “This is normal because many people loved him,” said Daniela Serigo, who lives in Rome and paid her respect on Friday. She said she heard dozens of languages, as well as Italian dialects, while waiting for her role to bid farewell. She said: “This means a lot for me to see him, he has given us a lot.”

Outside of Bazilica, national and local agencies began to decline their operations in preparation for the funeral. Security measures have been tightened. The roads surrounding the Vatican city began to close them in anticipation of 130 expected governmental delegations for the funeral. The Vatican said on Thursday that it includes 50 heads of the country and 10 Monarkin.

The lining of the streets surrounding the Vatican were volunteer workers in the green jackets, civil protection workers, and the Red Red Cross workers, ready to deal with immediate emergency situations or provide trends for confused tourists. Summary universities who change plastic bags in garbage boxes said that their work has increased significantly over the past few days.

Francis died on Monday, 88 years old, in the year of Jubilee, during which millions of believers are expected to perform the Hajj program to the Vatican. At the end of this week, Jubilee It is decided, and it will extend as usual, despite the postponement of overcoming Carlo Akotis, a teenager called the influencer on God. Therefore, it was not customary to see groups of adolescents from among those who raised the sarcophagus.

“We came to the jubilee. Instead we found ourselves involved in another event,” said Julia Marsheli of Ovada, a town in Pidmont, in northern Italy, who came with the church group.

“It was important to be here, even in mourning, it’s a historic moment as well. The dynamics may have changed but we are here too,” said the group’s leader, Francisco Martins.

Many nationals also organized trips for a final glimpse of Pope Francis.

Mattia Palmbo was with a group of believers who took a bus from Deliceto, in Puglia, in southern Italy, to pay his recent respect. Mr. Balumbo knows religion, and he said that Francis inspired him to study this topic. He said: “I felt that I had the duty to come.”

For companies close to the Vatican, the flow of believers was a blessing, even if it was reduced due to his sorrow for the death of the Pope.

“It was great, Rome is full of people, and there is a job for everyone,” said Roberto Foxini, the owner of Antica Vinia, a restaurant and bar wine near the Vatican. “I hope it is like this every day, and not that the Pope dies of course, but Rome is a tourist city after all.”