Venice, 27 April 2024 – There is great anticipation for the visit of Pope in Venice, which will begin early in the morning with a helicopter trip from the Vatican to Giudecca. Now everything is ready to welcome tomorrow, Sunday 28 October, Bergoglio in the city. It will be a short visit: landing is scheduled for 8am and departure around 1pm. Nine thousand people they will wait for the Pope in Piazza San Marco: places have been sold out for weeks.
Three stops planned in the lagoon. The first will be at Giudeccawhere he will meet the inmates and visit the Pavilion of the Holy See set up inside the prison for the Biennial. In front of the Basilica della Our Lady of Health, Pope Francis will speak to the young people – who will come from all over the Veneto to meet him – and will close the morning with a solemn celebration in Saint Mark.
Among the most symbolic moments of the visit to Venice, certainly the trip in the popemobile on the floating bridge set up up to San Marco: the Pope will be accompanied by young people Venetians. here is the plan and the details of the papal visit. Live coverage of the event on the pages ofIl Resto del Carlino‘ And QN.
The stages of the Pope’s visit to Venice
“Hope and great expectation” among them 80 prisoners of the Giudecca prison, who will meet the Pope tomorrow during his visit to Venice. Among them, “there are women who are serving time long penisesthere is also some white life sentence“, tells Don Antonio Biancottothe chaplain of the Giudecca prison who took care of the spiritual preparation of the inmates in view of the event.
At Giudecca Bergoglio will also visit the Pavilion of the Holy See set up for the Biennial in the women’s prison on the island. “The meeting with the Pope – explains the chaplain – will be open to all the inmates who live the moment with great hope and interest in returning home with their families.”
For those who were unable to book one of the 9,000 seats reserved for the parishes of the Patriarchate – 7,500 people will be seated and another 1,500 standing, all sold out for weeks – set up in Piazza San Marco for the celebration of the mass, you will be able to follow the visit in ‘live media’.
The Rest of the Pug And Qn they will publish the live broadcast of the event: a minute-by-minute live broadcast. Rai1 will broadcast the Live tv of the mass, as they will do local broadcasters.
It will start at 6.30 with the departure of the helicopter from the Vatican, the visit that Pope Francis will make to Venice tomorrow morning. The journey – reports the Patriarchate of Venice – will last approximately 90 minutes: Landing is scheduled for 8am in the internal square of the women’s prison on the island of Giudecca. Here the Patriarch will welcome him, Francesco Moragliathe regional administrator of the Ministry of Justice, Maria Milano Franco D’Aragonathe director of the prison Mariagrazia Felicita Bregoli and the commander of the penitentiary police Lara Boco.
At 8.15 the Pontiff’s meeting with the detained in the internal courtyard of the prison, where
Pope Bergoglio will give a speech. The presence of administrative staff, prison police officers – some also from the Santa Maria Maggiore men’s prison – and volunteers is also expected.
At the end of the meeting, the Pope will personally greet the inmates – about 80, including many foreigners – will then reach the church of Saint Mary Magdalene of the Convertspart of the large complex intended since the 17th century to house penitents, recently transformed into a prison.
In the church, the Pope will be welcomed by the cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education and curator of the Holy See Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale. At 9the Holy Father will meet the artists of the Biennale who are exhibiting in the Vatican pavilion and will give them a speech. At 9.30 it is expected that the Pope leave the island of the Giudecca on board a motorboat of the financial police, which will transport him to the Basilica of Our Lady of Health.
On the field of the Basilica of Our Lady of Health a stage has been set up: from here, Pope Francis will address the young people: there will be many of them boys of the diocese of Venice, but also with a delegation from the whole of Veneto. The speech is scheduled for 10.
At the end of the meeting with the young people, at 10.30 the Pontiff will cross the floating bridge built between the Salute and the San Marco shore, at the height of the Royal Gardens. It will be a very moment suggestive: during the journey, the Pope will be accompanied by the same young people who will then take their places in Piazza San Marco.
At the entrance of Piazza San Marcowill be welcomed by the governor Luca Zaiaby the prefect Darco Pellos and the mayor Luigi Brugnaro. Then he will cross the square, stopping at greet the faithful which will already be inside the Marciana area. Once you reach the stage, positioned in front of theNapoleonic Wing of the Procuratie, at 11 Pope Francis will celebrate the Holy Mass – concelebrated by Moraglia and the bishops of the Northeast – and at the end the Queen Coeli.
At 12.30Pope Francis will enter the Basilica of San Marco for a prayer, with the cameras off and in private, in front of the relics of San Marcoof which he is devoted.
After a moment of contemplation in front of the relics of the patron saint of Venice, the Pontiff will get back on board the motorboat of the financial police which will take him back to Giudecca, from where thehelicopter will leave at 1pm towards Rome. Landing in the Vatican is scheduled around 2.30pm.
