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The whole world saw, on Tuesday morning, the body of Pope Francis lying in a coffin, awaiting transfer to St. Peter's Cathedral.
But how is the body of the Pope, the head of all Catholics in the world and the 266th successor of the Apostle Peter, dressed? What is the Vatican's ritual for the death of a Pope?
Francesco's remains were not embalmed, as is tradition, but were only prepared with injections to slow their decomposition.
He was dressed in sacred vestments: the red jacket, the color of which symbolizes love and also the blood shed by Christ, which priests generally wear on Sunday, Good Friday, or the Feast of the Cross.
His body, at Francis's expressed wish, was placed in a simple coffin made of wood and zinc rather than in the coffins used for previous popes.
Francis also wears the pallium (in this case with black crosses) that priests generally place on their shoulders to handle the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament, that is, the consecrated Host, during expositions and blessings.
According to tradition, those for the Pope were made with the wool of two monk lambs and woven, always according to Vatican custom, by the cloistered nuns of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere.
On his head is a bishop's hat. In the past, on solemn occasions, popes wore the diadem, a precious metal headdress consisting of three overlapping crowns to show their power. But the diadem was abolished by Paul VI.
On the ring finger of his right hand, Francesco wears the silver ring he always used, since the time he was in Buenos Aires.
And between his fingers he has a rosary: the Pope has always been very devoted to Mary, so much so that he wanted to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, next to the icon "Maria Salus Populi Romani", painted according to tradition by the evangelist Luke.
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