(23 Apr 2025)
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Vatican City – 23 April 2025
1. Wide of pilgrims lining up to enter St. Peter’s square ahead of coffin’s arrival
2. Various Mexican pilgrims with flags and filming with their phones entering square
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manu Kasten, Mexican pilgrim from Guadalajara, guiding the group:
"Oh, at first it was very overwhelming, too many emotions. Between joy, uh, peace, a lot of nostalgia. Yes, there was a moment when the heart sank and you think that’s the last time we will see him publicly, but with the hope that we know he is now where he should be."
4. Various Mexican pilgrims filming
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Manu Kasten, visitor from Guadalajara, guiding the group:
"He is a very important pope. Although other popes like John Paul II had a very special affection for Mexico, Pope Francis, being Latin American, understood our reality very well. He understood our needs very well as a church, as a people, as a continent, and for us, it was impressive to have such a present voice in the church."
6. Pilgrims clapping as the coffins enter the Basilica
7. Wide of procession, coffin entering the Basilica
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monica Rivera, visitor from Toluca:
"Oh, no! What does it represent? Well, it represents hope for everyone. Because even though today we had the misfortune of being here for a funeral, for his burial, we have the hope of seeing him alive. It represents hope for us."
9. Mexican pilgrims facing St. Peter’s Basilica
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Monica Rivera, visitor from Toluca:
"It leaves us all of the teaching, it leaves us all of the hope. It leaves us a lot of work as catechists, especially the preparation, the constancy, the love, the embrace we give to all the children, because we are formers of children. But all this great ministry that Francis leaves us is that there is still a lot of work to be done, for evangelization, to make known that living Christ who lives."
11. Various of Mexican pilgrims holding their national flag
STORYLINE:
Mexican Catholics were amongst the thousands of people who filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday, the start of three days of public viewing ahead of the pontiff’s funeral.
Throngs of ordinary faithful made their way slowly to the 16th-century basilica’s main altar, where Francis’ simple wooden casket was perched on a slight ramp, as four Swiss Guards stood at attention. Over the coming days, tens of thousands of people are expected to pass through the basilica, which is staying open until midnight to accommodate them.
Cardinals, meanwhile, met in private to finalize preparations for Saturday’s funeral and plan the conclave to elect Francis’ successor.
Francis died on Monday at age 88, capping a 12-year pontificate characterized by his concern for the poor and message of inclusion, but also some criticism from conservatives who sometimes felt alienated by his progressive bent.
Wednesday opened with the bells of St. Peter’s tolling as pallbearers carried Francis’ body from the Vatican hotel where he lived into the basilica in a procession through the same piazza where he had delivered what became his final goodbye. Francis made a surprise popemobile tour through the faithful on Easter Sunday, after being assured by his nurse he could despite his continued frail health from a bout of pneumonia.
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