Five people each from the correctional facility and the Vatican health authority guided a simple wooden cross over the individual stages. Torch shells marked the processional path. Except journalists at the cordon of the St. Peter’s Square only homeless people attended the celebration colonnades. TV stations and Vatican media broadcast the prayer live.
Previously, the Pope during a special broadcast on Good Friday Called the broadcaster Rai1 and compared the nurses who died in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic with soldiers in the war. The “doctors, nurses, nurses, nuns and priests who died in the course of their work” had “fallen like soldiers at the front,” said Francis on Friday in the live broadcast on Italian television. “You gave your life out of love.”
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