Conclave 2025: This is how the wait of the black smoking in San Pedro, in the Vatican was lived

Some 45,000 people, gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro, waited with great emotion, and even anguish for the long time he took, the first black smoking of the conclave that takes place in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to choose the new Pope.

The Vatican had announced, before the start of the conclave that will choose Successor 267 of San Pedro, that the smoking would occur around 7:00 pm (Rome time), but it was not until approximately 9:00 pm, that the crowd could see the black smoke leaving the chimney, a sign that the Pope of the Catholic Church has not yet been chosen.

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Aci Press spoke with some people in the middle of the human tide, as a couple of Spaniards who had committed themselves in the famous Fontana Di Trevi, one of the artistic emblems of Rome.

Marta said that being in the Plaza de San Pedro was like “a dream. It is very exciting, the truth, because in the end we are Catholics and we are living something that anyone really lives.”

“And the course of the days of this week, everything we have lived, which has connected us a lot. And we have ended at the end here in the Vatican,” adds Guillermo, who accepted, after much insisting, Martha’s proposal to visit the eternal city.

“Now we have to return, tomorrow we have to return to the Netherlands and it’s 14 hours of car. He stays there because he works there and I return (to Spain),” shares the happy girlfriend.

The Pope will be “the one who the spirit wants”

Sr. María and Sor Julia are two religious who belong to the sisters of the homeless elders and who are part of a group of 40 nuns from the area of ​​Catalonia, Zaragoza, Aragon and Navarra (Spain) and who pray for their “cardinal brothers” in the conconclave.

For Sr. Julia, being in Rome in this historical moment “is a gift, because in the end it is like you feel a special way. In the end the person who has to lead the people of God, the vicar of Christ on earth, is chosen, which for us is the one who wants the spirit.”

For the religious, the new Pope will be “the one who at this time needs for this specific moment of the story we are living, with his difficulties, with everything we are living today.”

“The Spirit is the one that I believe will not fail and we trust it,” he said.

Matheus is a Brazilian artist who arrived in Italy to participate in the Venice Biennial, but who is in Rome and is lodged near the Vatican museums, where the Sistine Chapel is.

“I programmed this trip and fortunately I am here in this historical moment, it is my third time in Rome,” he said.

Like them, millions of people worldwide follow with great expectation the choice of the new Pope and, in the case of those in Rome, hoping to see the white smoke and listen to theWe have a pope! (We have potato) in the same place of these facts that keep the world in suspense.