Robert Brevost is a new start for the Catholic Church

After the sadness of death, the joy of a new beginning.

The warm sun of May was still high in the sky when the roar echoed the streets surrounding the Saint Peter Square.

On one of the streets, the amazing people looked at each other, then on their phones. After that, they started running in the narrow alleys leading to the Vatican. “White smoke, they say white smoke!” Call.

By the time when they reached the square, the white fog was still hovering over the left side of the Apostolic Palace, where 133 Cardinals were imprisoned since the day before, and voted to elect the new president of the Catholic Church.

With the flow of evening sunlight through the statues of the Apostles on the edge of the Church of St. Peter and performed the bells with joy on the scene, the youth and the elderly naked through the crowd, and grabbed a group of nuns transporting journalists and cameras.

Less than three weeks ago, Pope Francis has blessed the crowds of the balcony in St. Peter, and his memory was hung on the scene on Thursday; Almost everyone asked for the participation of their mentioned impressions Francis and the need for the new Pope in his footsteps.

“We have just arrived today from America,” a woman named Amanda told the BBC. “It seems like a blessing. We came here for this and here.”

“Divine timing!” She joked. Two elegant women in their twenties said they were “about to cry.” One of them said: “It is a historic moment, it is crazy,” adding that it hopes that the next Pope will be “at least good like the last one.”

This was a feeling that many echoed in those last minutes before the announcement of Pope Liu XIV.

“We do not care where he is following the footsteps of Francis and creates a unit for all of us Catholics.”

By the time that Dominic Mambarti – Proto Deskun in charge of presenting the distinctive “Habemus Papam” title to the box – appeared on the balcony, Saint Peter was full of edge. He was silent, though, once you read the name Robert Francis Preveost.

Perhaps those who know the 69-year-old Cardinal-who has worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before making a bishop there-as a possible appearance early.

But many people in the square appeared at the beginning, and the complete lack of phone coverage means that most of them were unable to search for it on the Internet – so the first impression that Pope Liu fourteent has reached the way he presented from the decorative balcony.

He moved clearly in the beginning, wore white and red clothes and spoke in a confident Italian – if he was a light teacher – read a lot longer letter than the observations made by his predecessor Francis in 2013.

“I would like to greet peace to all your hearts and families … and people around the world. Peace be upon you.” The new Pope started when the square was silent.

In other moments, his title was met with a frequent warm applause, especially when he mentioned “peace” – which he did on nine occasions – and the French late.

A section of the speech he delivered in the Spanish language received Pope Liu XIV his time in Peru with chants from various pockets of South America scattered across the square.

He also insisted on the need for loneliness, and in the end everyone was asked to join together in prayer. When he began reciting Ave Maria, a deep humiliation rose with a box, with some prayer in their own languages.

The crowd began slowly out of the square after a short period. While people were flowing with them, two young couples erected each other close. “I still have a cry of terror,” said Carla from Barcelona.

“The energy is infectious, it is amazing – it’s the first time here, and for me it is a 100 % surreal.” When asked about his hope for the fourteenth Pope Liu, he said: “The Holy Spirit guides him. I hope this means that we all can advance together.”

Jimma, a resident of Rome, said that she had not even heard Robert Brevost until she encountered Instagram this morning. “The reaction of the box was not warm,” her friend Marco added.

“If it was Italian, everyone would have started.” “But it was a beautiful evening, a beautiful occasion,” said Gemma. “It was my first tour. This new Pope is only 69 years old, so who knows when it will be the next?”

Empty the box. The restaurants surrounding the Vatican are full of pilgrims, clerics and tourists. Couples took the latest personal photos outside the basilica.

In the Apostolic Palace – now is not specified – Robert Brevost was a moment of private prayer.

Then, for the first time, the Sistin Church in the name of Liu XIV, Pope 267.