Posted on 01/25/2025 9:10:10 AM PST by plain talk
Pope Francis’ announcement this week [Dec 2023] that he wants to be buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome leads to a question: Where are his predecessors?
If you guessed St. Peter’s Basilica … there’s a good chance you’re right.
Pope Francis cites his devotion to Mary the Mother of Jesus and his frequent visits (both as pope and before) to the basilica dedicated in her honor, which is a little less than 2 1/2 miles east of St. Peter’s.
If Pope Francis is buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major, he won’t be alone. Six other popes are buried there. But he would be the first in more than 350 years.
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Pope Francis wants to be buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major instead of St. Peter’s Basilica. No surprise there since he is a different breed than his more recent predecessors.
No bashing of Catholics or Protestants intended here. Maybe this was posted before but I didn't see it upon a quick search.
The history of the first popes is brutal. I forget how many were murdered before they were left alone.
Fascinating history, interesting read. Thanks.
I thought that was where the white smoke from the Vatican comes in. When a pope dies, he lies in state and when a new pope is elected, the previous pope is cremated.
Yes, a lot of Popes are in the “first basement” of St. Peter’s. There are also lots of tiny chapels down there. The next level down is even better, it’s the remains of a pagan church and the spot where St. Peter’s remains are claimed to reside. You can see it all on the guided “Scavi Tour”. The people leading the tours are a fabulous font of information. You’ll see where pagan sacrifices were done, etc. Near the end you are standing on glass looking down at St. Peter’s resting spot. A lot of drainage was required to make it accessible and save it, the river is quite close by.
Pope Marx will probably want his rotting corpse next to Lenin’s.
Thou shalt have no graven images before me.
Malarkey says the RCC.
That certainly wasn’t the case with Pope Benedict, he resigned and lived for about 9 more years. Living that long has raised questions about his claim that his health was why he resigned since most Pope’s serve until death.
“Thou shalt have no graven images before me.”
That’s why many early churches were built over the remains of pagan ones. It’s also why Crosses were erected on many pagan works above ground all over Rome.
Oh, also, cremation of Catholics was forbidden until 1963 and has rules about how it is to be done as it was a pagan ritual.
Pope Benedict was gay (as are up to half of Catholic priests) and he saw that might be a problem with the looming clergy abuse scandals.
Yes, it’s a gay church now.
Traditionally most of the early popes died as martyrs but perhaps the evidence isn’t certain in every case. Some of them were buried in the catacombs.
HE CANNOT ACCOMPLISH THIS SOON ENOUGH, IMO
So burying pope is a graven image?
I guess you just flush your family like a dead goldfish, huh?
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