(21 Apr 2025)
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Vatican City – 21 April 2025
1. Various of nuns praying during rosary
2. Various of people showing front page of the Vatican daily newspaper “Osservatore Romano” , headline reading (Italian) ‘The Lord called the Holy Father Francis’
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Federico Fina, faithful:
“Pope Francis meant a lot for us young people. He has been an important figure for science too. He widened the church’s horizons. He opened to diversities. Anytime I had the chance to speak about Pope Francis at my university everybody expressed high esteem for him.”
4. Palestinian flags among crowd of faithful
5. Nun praying
6. Woman holding photo of Pope Francis
7. Cardinal Mauro Gambetti presiding over rosary prayer
8. Faithful praying
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Ilaria Sabatini, nurse:
“For sure he was close to the most weak people and he was also praying for nurses, and I am a nurse. He was close to the poorest people.”
10. Wide of Vatican
11. Close of Jesus on cross
12. Various of crowd at Vatican praying
13. SOUNDBITE (Italian), Denise Furlanetto, faithful from Treviso:
“I must say it was very moving, I come from Treviso, I wasn’t expecting that it would happen. We saw him yesterday. I was so saddened. He was one of us. This was the most beautiful thing, he was one of us. Therefor we are very sad.”
14. Various of crowd praying
15. Various of Saint Peter basilica
STORYLINE:
The Vatican held a Rosary prayer in St. Peter’s Square in its first public commemoration following Pope Francis’ death.
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, led the prayer as the sun set.
"I wasn’t expecting that it would happen. We saw him yesterday," said Denise Furlanetto, who had come from Treviso to attend the Sunday Easter service. "He was one of us," she added, "this was the most beautiful thing."
Other mourners at the ceremony remembered Pope Francis, saying he "widened the church’s horizons" and that he "was close to the poorest people."
Pope Francis died Monday at age 88.
The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he recovered from a five-week hospitalization for double pneumonia.
History’s first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated many conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
Francis recently returned to the Vatican after 38 days in a hospital for a respiratory crisis that developed into double pneumonia, the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy. He last appeared in public on Sunday with an Easter blessing and popemobile tour through a cheering crowd in St. Peter’s Square. No funeral date has been announced. The next pope is yet to be decided.
AP video by Paolo Lucariello and Luigi Navarra
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