The Pope's tomb will be, by his choice, simple. Without adornments or the extravagance imaginable for a head of state or a great religious leader. Only the inscription “Franciscus” and the reproduction of a cross to the center. But one detail gives the personal and special character to the place of the final rest of the body of the charismatic head of the Catholic Church: The tomb was built with a stone extracted from the Liguria region in Italy. It was there that his great -grandfather was born.
Before becoming the first Pope to adopt the name Francisco, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But its origins refer to the small cogor, an commune in the metropolitan region of Genoa, located in the Liguria region, in northwestern Italy. Vincenzo Girolamo Sivori was born in a cogon in 1850, married Caterina Sturla, also Italian, but went to build a family in Buenos Aires. One of his children, Francisco Sivori Sturla, would be the grandfather of the first South American pope.
Francisco had his first contact with distant relatives in 2017. It was in Genoa that he found his cousin, Angela Sivori. At 87, she can personally meet her cousin from Argentina and already consecrated as the leader of Catholics around the world. “I finally know the Sivori!” Exclaimed Pope Francis at the time, squeezing the hands of relatives. “We ranked up, seven of us. And he received us like a cousin coming from the 'end of the world,'” recalled Cristina Cogorno, daughter of Angela.
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Pope Francis' tomb was made with stone from the region of his grandparents
Funeral
This Saturday (26) began the Mass of Exequias, which marks the first day of the noveniali – nine days of mourning and prayers in honor of the Pontiff. The Eucharistic celebration takes place at the atrium of St. Peter's Basilica. In the end, the rites of the last Commendatio and Valedicio occur, solemn farewells that mark the closing of the foster.
The nine days of Eucharistic celebrations in suffrage of the dead pontiff will be marked by masses in the period that starts this Saturday and runs until May 4, always at 17h (local time), in the Basilica of St. Peter, except for the Mass of Divine Mercy, which will be this Sunday (27), at 10:30 am (local time), in St. Peter's Square.
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The Pope's body was exposed in St. Peter's Basilica for 3 days so that thousands of people could say goodbye to Francis. On Friday night (25), the wooden and zinc coffin was sealed and placed in the basilica atrium, in front of the altar.
* With information from Vatican News