Pope Francis' will details burial request after pontiff's death caused by stroke: Vatican officials

Vatican officials person shared the volition near down by Pope Francis, which details his burial request, hours aft the pontiff passed distant from a cerebral changeable that led to bosom failure.

"Feeling that the sunset of my earthly beingness is approaching and with lively anticipation successful the Eternal Life, I privation to explicit my testamentary volition lone with respect to the spot of my Burial," the papers begins.

Written successful June 2022, the volition details the pope's burial preferences, which disagree from pontiffs from the past fewer centuries.

"I person ever entrusted my beingness and the priestly and episcopal ministry to the Mother of Our Lord, Mary Most Holy. Therefore, I inquire that my mortal remains remainder waiting for the time of the resurrection successful the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore," the papers continues.

FAITH LEADERS REFLECT ON POPE FRANCIS' DEATH, PAPACY AND LASTING LEGACY: 'MADE HIS MARK'

Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his play General Audience astatine the Paul VI Hall connected Feb. 5, 2025 successful Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Francis said that helium wanted his "last earthly travel to extremity successful this past sanctuary."

The volition besides asks for Francis to beryllium buried successful the earth, "without peculiar decorum and with the lone inscription: Franciscus."

"I inquire that my tomb beryllium prepared successful the spread of the aisle betwixt the Pauline Chapel (Chapel of the Salus Populi Romani) and the Sforza Chapel of the aforementioned Papal Basilica arsenic Indicated successful the attached annex," it reads. 

He besides stated that burial expenses should beryllium covered with the sum of the benefactor whom Francis arranged with.

POPE FRANCIS’ DEATH AFTER RESPIRATORY ILLNESS: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT BILATERAL PNEUMONIA

Pope Francis greets cardinals arsenic helium unexpectedly appears during the Palm Sunday Mass successful Saint Peter's Square astatine the Vatican, April 13, 2025. (Yara Nardi/Reuters)

"I person arranged, to beryllium transferred to the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and of which I person provided to springiness Appropriate instructions to Mons. Rolandas Makrickas, Extraordinary Commissioner of the Chapter Liberian," his volition reads. 

"May the Lord springiness the well-deserved reward to those who person loved maine and volition proceed to commune For me. The suffering that was made successful the past portion of my beingness I offered to the Lord For bid successful the satellite and brotherhood among peoples," it ended. 

Francis, 88, died Monday greeting astatine the Vatican. Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, the caput of the Vatican’s wellness department, said that the changeable enactment him into a coma and led to irreversible bosom failure, according to an day update from Vatican officials.

POPE FRANCIS REVEALED BURIAL WISHES JUST DAYS AFTER BECOMING POPE IN 2013

Pope Francis waves during an assemblage with Hungarian pilgrims successful Paul VI hallway astatine the Vatican connected April 25, 2024. (Fillipo Monteforte/AFP via Getty)

"I certify that His Holiness Francesco (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) calved successful Buenos Aires (Argentina) connected December 17, 1936, Resident successful Vatican City, Vatican Citizen, died astatine 7.35 americium connected April 21, 2025, successful his flat astatine the Domus Santa Marta (Vatican City) of: Brain stroke, coma, and irreversible cardiocollaspe," the study read.

Arcangeli added that Francis besides suffered from episodes of "respiratory insufficiency," arsenic good arsenic his caller bilateral pneumonia. Officials said the pope besides suffered from benignant 2 diabetes and hypertension.

Francis, who had battled pneumonia for weeks earlier being released from the hospital, faced wellness complications for galore years and had fractional of 1 of his lungs removed erstwhile helium was young. 

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He was elected to the papacy connected March 13, 2013, and was the archetypal Jesuit to go pope.

The pope's past nationalist quality was connected Easter Sunday astatine St. Peter's Square.

Fox News' Thomas Ferraro, Alec Schemmel, and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report. 

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