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What you need to know about the ceremony before a papal funeral

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On the eve of the funeral Mass for Pope Francis, the coffin in which his body was placed immediately after his death will be sealed shut during a special ceremony held in the Vatican Basilica, known in Latin as De capsæ obseratione. Before the Funeral Mass takes place on Saturday morning, the cardinal-camerlengo will come to St. Peter’s on Friday night with representatives of the various ranks of the College of Cardinals (cardinal-bishop, cardinal-priest, and cardinal-deacon) and certain other dignitaries from Vatican City State, including the Vatican’s own canons and confessors, and the late pope’s relatives. The camerlengo will preside over the ceremony, which has three particularly noteworthy elements: the reading of a Rogito or deed of the deceased pope’s life and work, the placing of a purse of coins struck during the years of his pontificate into the coffin and the veiling of the face of the deceased pontiff.

The reading of the pope’s deeds​


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