Vatican. The ceremony celebrations of Pope Francis with the participation of the Marshal of the Sejm

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Saturday, April 26, 2025 15:45

World leaders, politicians, clergymen together with tens of thousands of believers said goodbye on Saturday, April 26, Pope Francis. During the ceremony in the Vatican, Poland was represented by president Andrzej Duda and his wife, talker of the Sejm Szymon Holovnia with a delegation of MPs and Senators and Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish.

Funeral celebrations Jorge Mario Bergoglio began at 10 a.m. in St Peter's Square. The Mass was presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re. "The decision to adopt the name Francis immediately proved to be a choice of program and kind which he wanted to give to his pontificate, trying to draw inspiration from the spirit of St Francis of Assisi," he stressed in the homily.

Cardinal Re pointed out that despite his mediocre health, the Holy Father in fresh days gave a blessing from the balcony of the basilica and appeared in St Peter's Square to greet many of the open Papamobile gathered at Easter Mass. - Despite the weakness and suffering of the last time, Pope Francis chose the way of consecration until the last day of his life on earth. He followed the footsteps of his Lord, the Good Shepherd, who loved his sheep until he gave up his life for them. He did this with power and peace, close his fold, the Church of God," he said at the ceremony.

Giovanni Battista Re besides added that Pope Francis showed exceptional care for people in a hard position, without limit sacrificing himself to them, especially those most excluded.

After the ceremony mass from the Vatican, a ceremony procession with the coffin of Pope Francis began. According to his will, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was buried in the Basilica of Our woman of the Greater (Santa Maria Maggiore).

During the gathering with journalists of the talker of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia pointed out that St Peter's Square is simply a peculiar place, due to the fact that it was there that the Pope met with believers from all over the world. "Today, erstwhile he went to this square in this already closed coffin, incapable to say anything, I tried to think through the full mass what he wanted to say," said Szymon Towownia. The Marshal of the Sejm besides quoted words from the papal autobiography: "For those who are different to us, we are different too." -Franciszek was individual who tamed this difference very much, he told us to bury the gaps that divide us," he said.

- He was a man who loved life. The full time it seemed that this life was not enough, that it was insatiable with this life, and at the same time it was transforming it into pure good," summed up the Marshal of the Sejm, at the same time noting that Francis would be happy, that people needing it had said goodbye.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio died on April 21. He was the 266th Bishop of Rome.

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