(22 Apr 2025)
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Vatican City, Vatican – 22 April 2025
1. Wide of Via della Conciliazione with St. Peter’s Basilica in background
2. Police on Via della Conciliazione
3. People walking on cobblestones towards basilica
4. Altar dedicated to Pope Francis near Vatican
5. Close of photo of Pope
6. Woman taking selfie in front of little Pope Francis altar
7. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Rev. Benjamin Nambi, Visitor from Malawi:
“For me he was the Pope who was very close to all of us, to the poor, migrants. He thought of everyone. For me he was the people’s Pope, even for those who are not Catholic, he managed to touch their hearts with his approach and his way of getting close to them.”
8. Media gathered on edge of St. Peter’s Square
9. Media gathered
10. Journalist speaking to camera
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Yorgos, Visitor from Greece:
“Very sad for Christianity. He was a very great Pope. I am not Catholic but I have followed his work and his engagement. I am also sad.”
12. Carabinieri military police in front of St. Peter’s Basilica
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carolina (last name not provided), Visitor from Argentina:
“When we arrived yesterday, we had planned our trip a long time ago, and when we arrived at the airport we got the news that the Pope had died, and so we are here. Luckily we are here and it is an important Pope for us because he was Argentine and we are from Argentina.”
14. Tourists in St. Peter’s Square
15. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Marcelo (last name not provided), Visitor from Argentina:
“It is really an emotional moment to be here. It is by chance that we are here. We didn’t know we were coming here for this, we just came as tourists, to take a tour and to get to know the place. By chance we learned that Bergoglio died – this is how we call him in Argentina—it is very hard. He gave hope to everyone.”
16. Various of workers setting up platform for media from all over the world as faithful walk by carrying cross (towards the basilica to pass through the Holy Door)
17. Cardinal walking near press office
STORYLINE:
Visitors to Vatican City expressed their sadness at the passing of Pope Francis on Tuesday, as officials announced that history’s first Latin American pontiff would be laid to rest on Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The cardinals met on Tuesday in the Vatican’s synod hall to chart the next steps before a conclave begins to choose Francis’ successor, as condolences poured in from mourners across the city and around the world.
“For me he was the people’s Pope, even for those who are not Catholic, he managed to touch their hearts with his approach and his way of getting close to them,” Rev. Benjamin Nambi, a visitor from Malawi, told the Associated Press.
Another visitor from Argentina, who gave only his first name Marcelo, described the emotion of being in Vatican City at the time of the pope’s death.
“We didn’t know we were coming here for this, we just came as tourists, to take a tour and to get to know the place. By chance we learned that Bergoglio died – this is how we call him in Argentina—it is very hard. He gave hope to everyone,” he said.
The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
The Argentine pope died on Monday at age 88 after a stroke put him in a coma and led his heart to fail.
He had been recovering in his apartment after being hospitalized for five weeks with pneumonia.
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