The balcony of the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican still looked on Monday morning adorned as on the special occasions, after Pope Francis, convalescent, offered from there this Sunday what has been his last blessing. After the death of the Argentine Pontiff, it will be the new Pope who appears to this distinguished balcony to appear to the world. The Plaza de San Pedro and the Basilica are gradually filled, as it happens any normal day and more now during the jubilee, where the influx of the pilgrims who mix with the tourists is constant. For all the streets that are going to give the famous colonnade of San Pedro, Romans, penitent, faithful and curious. Also several crews of operators who prepare to remove the flowers from the balcony and the door of the basilica, as well as the thousands of chairs that had been placed to follow the Mass of Easter Sunday. The previous day, Domingo de Resurreción, one of the most important celebrations for the Christians, Francisco, who died at 7.35 hours the morning on Monday – just after the Holy Week – he traveled the place on board the place on board To the faithful, or who knows, if to say goodbye. In the same place, on Monday the whispers of a group of nuns who, supported by the bars of the main door of the basilica, pray some litanies, looking at the main altar, they contrast with the noise of a pair of tractors that maneuver behind and go ahead, pulling trailers loaded with metallic chairs and fences. PILLO By surprise practically, one cannot be prepared for something like that. As particular as that of the Pope’s disappearance, life takes place normally, although most of the comments that are heard in different languages have to do with the news of the day. “Little by little, all this will be filled with people who come alone to say goodbye to the Pope, I planned Crowded. A group of nuns, such as the great crowd, took pictures with the background basilica, a couple holds their mobile with an extended arm to take a snapshot, a family makes a gesture to offer their phone to those who pass around them to ask them to take a photograph. There are those who buy souvenirs in a traveling position of the square that offers magnets and keychains. Others look for the sources to cool off and the shadows to protect themselves from the spring sun on Monday that is scorching in the central hours of the day. Many sit on the floor to rest while looking at their phones, some are reading on their screens and commenting on information about Francisco’s death and others simply reviewing the snapshots they have taken on their trip to the eternal city. In coming and going from people who leave the basilica, in the moments of jam, when the row stops, the strangers talk to each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other, if they recognize each other. “How appropriate we have been, we had to come just the day the Pope dies,” a man in Italian is ironic. “It is a historical moment for the Church, we hope to say goodbye to the Pope when they place it in the Basilica, now we are going to attend one mass in another church,” he says. Some people leave flowers in the street lamps or the sources of the square. A newly married couple also passes with their photographer to take photos on this sunny day in front of the basilica. She is dressed in red and carries her wedding bouquet. Some passersby who pass by their side turn around to contemplate the scene that, on the other hand, is part of the normal climate of a tourist anthill through which thousands of people of the most varied origin pass every day. In the atmosphere they look, also as every day, many Argentine flags. Pablo Gómez travels through Europe with his wife Marcela from Navarro, an Argentine city 100 kilometers from Buenos Aires, to tour “the places originally from their ancestors.” They have just arrived from Croatia and have stopped in Rome before returning to Argentina. “We wanted to see Francisco,” he says, “but we don’t arrive,” they complete the phrase in unison. They are religious, followers of Don Bosco and know Bergoglio of his stage of archbishop of Buenos Aires. She participated years ago in a catechesis course taught by the then prelate Jorge Mario Bergoglio. “In a part of the formation he raised the possibility of entering politics to make people’s lives better. He offered me this option directly, not to mention any specific group, and I had never participated in politics, I told him no and told me that the only way to improve the world was getting into politics and soon I presented myself and I was elected councilor in my city,” he recalls. And he continues: “They are experiences that mark us. I was very sorry that Francisco could not return to Argentina, for us it would have been an important point of union.” “He came to transform the Church. He has made great changes within the structure of the Church and has also established dialogue with other religions and other branches of Christianity,” says her husband. A fixed image on one of the giant screens of the square, for which the Pope’s masses are usually retrac That his end approached. ‘Let me see this last time, ”says Danilo Iodice, a 32 -year -old psychiatrist, originally from Salerno, who works in Rome. “It seems that he has decided to spend his last hours as he wanted, giving his last message as Pope,” adds Iodice, who has gone to the Plaza de San Pedro on his free day with a friend to see what environment he was on such a marked day. “While in Rome it is impossible not to follow the news of the Pope,” he says. He agrees with him his friend Fabio Caradente, a 33 -year -old Neapolitan educator who also lives in Rome. “You breathe a very particular and unusual climate. It will not have been easy for him to send a message to the world showing himself in public in his circumstances, being bad, he wanted to be among the people,” says Caradent. (Tagstotranslate) Pope Francis
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