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As Francisco will do that Thursday, Pius VII presided over the funeral of Pius VI in 1802. However the circumstances have been very totally different.
The celebration of the funeral of Benedict XVI. from his predecessor Francis has a precedent in trendy instances of the Church, printed this Wednesday by Vatican Information, the official information service of the Holy See. It is nearly a discovery as a result of the circumstances have been very totally different.
Joseph Ratzinger resigned on February 28, after greater than 600 years and not using a spontaneous resignation of a pope being remembered.
So Ratzinger went along with his resignation from the papacy 607 years after the pressured resignation of Gregory XII. entered historical past in 1415 708 years this has been taking place because the monk’s voluntary resignation Celestine V
Pope Francis will preside over the solemn funerals of his predecessor on Thursday from 9:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. in Argentina) in St. Peter’s Basilica within the Vatican, a incontrovertible fact that was thought-about unprecedented. Nonetheless, there may be one, albeit with vital variations.
The case of Pius VI
The case of Pius VI, whose title was Giannangelo Braschi (an abbreviation of Angelo Onofrio Melchiorre Natale Giovanni Antonio Braschi dei Bandi), born in Cesena in 1717, may be very totally different in his life circumstances.
Pius VI was Elected Pope in 1775 turns into the 250th Pope of the Catholic Church. however He was captured by Napoleon and died in Valence in 1799.
When the storming of the Bastille befell in 1789, marking the start of the French Revolution, Pius VI denounced the actions of the revolutionary regime and condemned the spiritual persecution, however he didn’t have the total assist of the French clergy, who expressed their loyalty to New France.
Pius VI additionally condemned the demise of Louis XVI. by the guillotine and celebrated the king’s funeral.
In Could 1976 Napoleon Bonaparte superior to Lombardy after which to Milan. French troops lastly entered Rome on February 15, 1798, the 23rd anniversary of the hold forth. Pius VI acquired arrested on the night time of February 20th. And he was deported to France as a state prisoner sick. He was 81 years previous.
His successor Pius VII. elected earlier than the vacant seat of the papacy, He endeavored to search out the stays of Pius VI. To be repatriated to Rome after Napoleon permitted the transfers.
In December 1801 started for the physique of Pius VI. an extended journey that culminated within the arrival by boat in Genoa.
In response to Vatican Information, a “triumphant pilgrimage” to solemn funeral providers adopted happen in a number of levels. On February 17, 1802, the coffin containing the lifeless prisoner Pope arrived in Rome, obtained by the cardinals and the individuals.
The brand new Pope Pius VII held the solemn funeral service in St. Peter’s Basilica.
And the physique of Pius VI. was then taken to the Vatican Grottoes, the place greater than 90 popes are buried at present.
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