Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The casket of John Paul II is removed from the grave on April 29 for his beatification

The coffin containing the remains of John Paul II will be removed from his tomb in the Vatican Grottoes, on 29 April and 1 May placed before the Altar of the Confession of St. Peter's Basilica, for the faithful to venerate after be beatified by Benedict XVI. Once out of the tomb, the coffin will be placed on a bier covered with a white cloth in front of the monumental tomb of St.

Peter in the Vatican Grottoes, where it remains until the morning of May 1, hours before the start beatification ceremony, said on Tuesday according to Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi. The Vatican Grottoes (crypt) will be closed to the public on 29 and 30 April and first of May. The coffin containing the remains of Pope Wojtyla, died April 2, 2005 to nearly 85 years (met on May 20) will not be opened or the body exhumed, said Lombardi.

"I do not see the body of John Paul II," said Lombardi, who said he will not be exhumed because of the short space of time that makes his death. Once Benedict XVI has beatified in a ceremony starting at nine o'clock the first of May, Pope Ratzinger accompanied by the cardinals who concelebrated the Mass, go in procession from the Plaza de San Pedro to Inside the basilica, which will bow before the coffin and pray.

Then all the faithful who so wish may come to the grave to pay tribute to Pope led the Church for nearly 27 years (1978-2005) and entered the third millennium. St. Peter's Basilica will be open for the duration the flow of the faithful, to allow hundreds of thousands who are expected to pray at the first Polish pope in history.

Upon completion of the celebrations, the coffin is taken to a Vatican chapel of the temple, to allow an influx of the faithful in the future. This is the chapel of San Sebastian, which is on the right, entering the basilica of San Pedro, among which hosts the "Pieta" by Michelangelo, and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.

This chapel, which has been restored, with new lighting and sound, now keeps the remains of Pope Innocent XI (1611-1689). Next Friday, closed to the public once the basilica of St. Peter, the urn containing the remains of Innocent XI will be transferred to the Altar of the Transfiguration, in a simple ceremony, presided over by Cardinal Archpriest of the temple, Angelo Comastri, and chapter cathedral.

The remains of John Paul II has rested since April 8, 2005, when the funeral in the Vatican Grottoes, which was tomb of Blessed Pope John XXIII, just meters from the tomb of St. Peter. John Paul II is the only pope that rests between two queens, Christina of Sweden and Charlotte of Cyprus, also buried in the Vatican Grottoes just yards from his grave.

A simple white marble tombstone marbled after which there is a white planters cleat covers the tomb of the Polish pope, who has become a place of pilgrimage of the faithful throughout the world. According to the Vatican, an average of more than 20,000 people visit daily. "Pavlvs Ioannes PP II.

16. X.1978-2. IV.2005" are the only letters and numbers etched into the marble slab, from the famous Carrara marble mountain in northeastern Italy. The slab measures 2.20 meters long and 1.20 meters wide and is arranged so that the faithful can see and read the writing with ease. John Paul II was very fond of John XXIII, so it was decided to bury him in the tomb which occupied it, once the "Good Pope", who convened the Second Vatican Council which radically changed the church, was taken to St.

Peter's Basilica Once beatified. The remains of John XXIII rest in the chapel of St. Jerome, a few steps that will house the remains of Pope Wojtyla.

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