Before the Vatican basilica on Saturday at 18 will bring together thousands of the faithful, just as 11 years ago, when participating in the ongoing continuous prayers for the dying Pope. People started to come to the square on the night of March 31 to April 1, 2005 immediately after the media reported about the further deterioration of the health of Pope John Paul II and his serious condition.
This came after weeks of a major crisis caused by worsening Parkinson’s disease , initially presented as the flu, after two stays of the Pope in the hospital and surgery tracheotomy and general weakness.
About how much is bad, the faithful could see a few days earlier, during the celebration of Holy Week. On Good Friday a very sick pope silently watched in his chapel transmission of the Way of the Cross in the Roman Colosseum; the first time it took place without him.
“The Pope is dying …”, “state kytyczny …”
pope , who is recognized very high fever, did not agree to it, by the third time in two months he was taken to the hospital. On the square in front of the basilica began to pray for him. Media and emphasized that all indications are that it began last phase of the life of John Paul II . Just a few hours after the first information on the websites of newspapers and television emerged headlines: “Pope dies”, “critical condition.”
Morning on April 1 John Paul II received the sacrament anointing of the sick – the Vatican announced and admitted that his condition is very serious. At the time, every hour hundreds more people came to St. Peter’s Square and the basilica to pray spontaneously carried out.
The prayers began at a papal window in the Curia in Krakow in the street Franciscan and Jasna Gora in Czestochowa. For fervent prayers for the pope called on the Bureau of the Conference of the Polish Episcopate. A similar appeal was sent to the Italians.
The prayers joined also Jews and Muslims in many countries.
The pope Clear off – he told his living in the Vatican friend Cardinal Andrzej Deskur.
to Rome started coming from all over the world cardinals.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced that John Paul II is suffering, has trouble breathing and fully conscious. More than these words at the press conference said their behavior Navarro-Valls, who passed reporters information crying.
In the evening on April 1 Vatican City in the next published Communication announced a further deterioration of health, and failure cardiovascular.
There is no longer any hope
There is no hope – media reported.
At the bedside of John Paul II gathered his closest associates and friends. Everyone said goodbye to him in turn.
Then St. Peter’s Square was already about 60 thousand faithful. Durable uninterrupted prayer of the Rosary. He arrived there also the chief rabbi of Rome, Riccardo Di Segni.
The daily “Corriere della Sera”, which was released early in the morning on Saturday, April 2, Catholic Italian journalist Vittorio Messori wrote that one of the first tasks of the new pope should be the beatification of John Paul II.
Other Italian newspapers wrote that day in the titles: “We embrace the dying Pope”, “World without Charles,” “the long agony of the Holy Father.” He reminded that the outgoing John Paul II for many years was called “God’s Atlet” which was a reference to his energy, courage and vigor, worship sports, skiing and long walks in the mountains. But his iron health, it was noted, was weakened as a result of the attack of 13 May 1981, when he was seriously wounded on St. Peter’s Square.
Official “L’Osservatore Romano”, referring to the crowds of the faithful constantly participating in the vigil on square in the Vatican stressed that it was “unexpected Youth Day.”
At noon on Saturday officially announced that John Paul II began slowly, briefly losing consciousness.
Young people present on the square beneath his window in the Apostolic Palace chanted “Giovanni Paolo”, giving thus, to know about their presence.
The death of Pope John Paul II
John Paul II died on April 2 at 21.37 in the 27th year of his pontificate , as one of the longest sit on the throne of Peter bishops of Rome. It was one of the most important pontificates in the history of the Church; pontificate many breakthroughs open to other religions and faiths, courageous gestures, and more than a hundred foreign pilgrimage.
Polish pope died on the eve of the Feast of Divine Mercy, which he established in 2000, canonizing sister Faustina Kowalska.
100 thousand faithful gathered in St. Peter’s square announced the death of the pope one of his aides Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, who several minutes later went out to them, saying: “dear brothers and sisters, about 21.37 our beloved Pope John Paul II returned to the father’s house. “
Doctors assured then: we did everything we could, but without the use of aggressive medical treatment .
Two hours after the death of Pope Polish Episcopate said: We believe that John Paul II will expand a bunch of saints .
Santo subito
the next day, Divine Mercy Sunday, about 200,000 people gathered for the funeral mass at St. Peter’s square celebrated by Cardinal Angelo Sodano. He spoke in a sermon: John Paul the Great was a champion of the civilization of love, or Christian civilization, which stands in radical contradiction to civilization proclaimed by the ideologies of hate.
About 2 million people have cast tribute to the Pope going in the next few days past his body exposed in the Vatican Basilica. Some people waited in line for up to several hours.
On Thursday, April 7, the day before the funeral of Pope John Paul II , was published his testament, written from the beginning of his pontificate. I thank you all. All I ask forgiveness. I also ask for prayer, that the Mercy of God may appear greater than my weakness and unworthiness – wrote, among other things.
In the pope’s funeral Mass on April 8 at the Piazza San Marco. Peter, she chaired by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, attended by hundreds of thousands of faithful. Poles were about 300,000. They came the heads of state and monarchs and religious leaders from around the world. It was the biggest funeral ceremony in history.
The square was brought banners with appeals and “Santo subito” – for the immediate canonization of the Polish pope.
It has been beatified May 1, 2011, and canonized 27 April 2014 year. His process of beatification and canonization was a record short.
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