Vatican's new rules. Pope Francis has opposed the centuries-old practice of placing deceased popes in three connected coffins. Additionally, he stated that he would like to rest outside the Vatican. These are just some of the new burial rules.
In a new official funeral announced by the pope on Wednesday, the Vatican said Francis abandoned the centuries-old practice of placing the late pope in three interlocking coffins made of cypress, lead and oak. Then he said. Instead, Francis will be buried in a single wooden coffin lined with zinc, Reuters reported.
The “Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis” protocol update also introduced other changes, including: Certification of death will no longer take place in the deceased's room, and the body will be immediately placed in a coffin in a chapel, and then exposed to the worship of the faithful in an open coffin rather than in a catafalque.
Vatican. New rules for pope funerals
Francis also announced that he would be the first pope in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican. The Pope wants to rest in the Basilica of the Virgin Mary in Rome.
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The last pope to be buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. John Lateran. As Vatican News points out, the new rules replace the 1998 rules, which were in force during John Paul II's pontificate, according to which his funeral It was said that it was held in 2005.
The Pope announced last year that he wanted to simplify the complicated and lengthy funerals held in the case of his predecessors.
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