Vespers in Santa María la Mayor, Basilica where Pope Francis rests in Rome

The Cardinals of the Catholic Church participated on April 27 of the prayer of the second vespers on the Sunday of Mercy, a prayer held in the Basilica of Santa María la Mayor, where Pope Francis is already resting, the place where he prayed to the Virgin Salus Populi Romani, before and after each apostolic trip.

According to Vatican News, along with the cardinals was also the “Lady with yellow flowers”, the Italian to which Pope Francis referred to on March 23 when he was discharged. Carmela “Carmelina” Mancuso, 79, went to the Gemelli hospital every day to leave yellow flowers and to pray for the health of the pontiff.

The prayer was chaired by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, Arcipreste Coadjtor of the Mariana Temple Basilica, who recently reported what the Virgin Mary revealed to Pope Francis about the place of her grave.

After the song of the Psalms, the passage of Romans 6, 5-7 was read: “Because if we have been united to him in the similarity of his death, we will certainly be in the similarity of his resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that our body of sin was destroyed, so that we are no longer slaves of sin; because he who has died, has been released from sin.

In the requests he prayed for the Church, the poor, the sick and the deceased, and also prayed for the late Argentine Pontiff: “By Pope Francis, that the risen Lord wraps him in the abode of Light and Peace.”

The coffin with the remains of Pope Francis was deposited on Saturday, April 26 in the Santa María la Mayor Basilica, in a grave prepared according to the wishes of the Argentine pontiff, who always had a special devotion to the Virgin Salus Populi Romani housed in this temple.

Since yesterday there are many faithful who arrive at the Marian Basilica to pray before the tomb of the first Jesuit and Latin American Pope in history.