CITY 'OF THE VATICAN - Karol Wojtyla is now blessed. The words of the official sacred, spoken by Benedict XVI shortly after 10:30 on a Sunday in May 1 in sunny Rome, an endless applause bounced between the basilica of St. Peter and the many streets around the Vatican, attacked by more peacefully one million people.
In the evening, the police will talk about one and half million visitors. A moving ceremony. But too much chaos for the people who were unable to enter the square, remaining locked in the sun, without being able to go forward or backward, and especially without being able to see the ceremony from the giant screens and take the papal blessing.
Songs, hugs, tears in his eyes after the Pope kissed the ampulla with the blood of the Great Polish, while waving thousands of flags everywhere. A lot of those red and white of Poland, with pilgrims from Krakow, Warsaw and Gdansk. As soon as the Pope John Paul II beatified, was discovered the tapestry with the image of the new Blessed, Blessings that stands on the balcony of the basilica of St.
Peter, drawn by a beautiful photograph of the Pope in Wadowice, taken in 1995. All around, the whole long column of Bernini, some of the best photos of the pontificate, including one stood out the attack made 30 years ago in this same square. After listening to prayer in the formula given by Joseph Ratzinger, who has strongly backed the successor to John Paul II beatification in a record time, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, the French woman from the Great Polish miracle, dismissed the tension with a smile, clapping along with the crowd.
"Blessed pater," he said in Latin by Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Agostino Vallini, who promoted the cause of beatification, saying the Latin formula of request to Benedict XVI. Vallini then made a long, at times exciting, story of the life of Wojtyla. The pope's words have thrilled the crowd overflowing.
"Six years ago, at his funeral, we felt wafting the scent of his holiness.'s Why I wanted to, in due respect of the rules of the Church, that the beatification proceeded with reasonable promptness. And then the day since he arrived, he arrived soon, so it seemed good to the Lord: John Paul II blessed.
" Benedict also recalled one of Wojtyla's famous phrases: "Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ! What the newly elected Pope wondered at all, he himself - has marked Ratzinger - he did it first: Christ has opened to society, culture, political and economic systems, reversing the strength of a giant's strength came from God, a trend that could seem irreversible.
" Pope John Paul II, Benedict continued, he returned to Christianity, "the hope that somehow was transferred to Marxism and ideology of progress." And at the end of the homily he added spontaneously, emotional voice and gaze at the sky, turning to his predecessor: "Holy Father, bless us." On the coffin of Pope John Paul II, placed before the altar of the Confession in St.
Peter's Basilica, then half of a long procession, was placed a copy of the Gospel Book of Lorsch, with the pages open. The text of the Middle Ages, is one of the most precious Gospels kept in the Vatican Library and contains the gospels of Luke and John. One hundred celebrants were the cardinals, and more than 800 priests pledged to give communion at the end of the mass.
Chaotic, and huge in number, the arrival of the faithful from Italy and abroad with pilgrims even from Korea. The whole range of neighborhoods around St. Peter's Square has been blocked since the early hours of the morning. By way of conciliation, the road leading to the basilica, the crowd estimated by police and the Vatican press office in more than one million people, flooded the emergency lanes, which should ensure the passage of emergency vehicles.
File uninterrupted faithful busy, unable to go further, all the surrounding squares, and the area of Castel Sant'Angelo, up to Meadows. Groups of nuns have even decided not to approach the place of the beatification: "There were too many people pushing and crowd - said disconsolate. - All pressing to get into St.
Peter's Square, at some point there is no air and we go away. " I had the most far-sighted way to the basilica at 2 am, when they were surprised to open the gates of entry, the scheduled time of 4 hours. Many sicknesses, because of the heat and pressure caused by the crowd of more than 500 people rescued and brought to the medical tents.
A lot of the complaints of those who were unable to enter the square, protesting against the organizers. "We came here - told a group of fallen into a bar in Verona Viale Giulio Cesare in search of a television to watch the stages of the ceremony - and we could not even get the papal blessing." Even before the 10, still waiting for the ceremony, the Hall system of Rome declared, in a message released on Isoradio, that "the Vatican area is saturated," inviting the pilgrims not to travel more in the area close to basilica.
People were thus forced to follow the ceremony from giant screens in the square of the Esquiline, in the yard of St. Paul, the Circus Maximus and also in San Giovanni in Laterano, having regard to coincide with the influx of people about to go to Concertone May 1. Full stage of the authorities, with the front row, the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.
The Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, made a tour of the chairs to shake hands and greet one by one the guests, including royalty, heads of state and prime ministers. Eighty-eight delegations. The night after the wake last night at the Circus Maximus was spent in the squares and churches, singing, dance, moments of reflection and a few hours of sleep in the open.
After 22.30, after the ceremony, the people of Wojtyla has been poured into the streets of downtown to San Pietro, stopping from time to time, in one of eight churches remained open throughout the night. Among the most sought after, San Filippo Blacks, which was gremitissima between one and five.
While young people of different nationalities in the square danced and sang, in the sacred place in many people tried to sleep lying on one another on the aisles, while others listened, sitting between the benches or huddled on the floor, a priest told stories about John Paul II. Many have confessed, not only in the confessional.
Other groups of pilgrims have followed different paths, also coming to Campo dei Fiori, mixing with the nightlife on Saturday evening in Rome. Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II had already become a bivouac in the open, with hundreds of pilgrims camped in tents, sleeping bags and blankets for the night, waiting for the gates were open because of Reconciliation.
However great happiness among the crowd in the rite of beatification. And strong words written in the editorial this morning on the front page of the future, the bishops' newspaper. John Paul II "was mocked by the powerful when he condemned the war," wrote the correspondent and commentator Luigi Geninazzi.
Ed "has been criticized and opposed even within the Church." The article points out that Pope John Paul II has "raised their voice on many occasions, even angry with his beloved countrymen after the fall of communism chased false model of freedom." The truth about the new Blessed, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference has derived from a phrase of his successor: "John Paul II has moved with the desire to open all over the access roads to Christ, making it feasible to every man the gate to real life.
" "It 's the effective synthesis - says the editorial of the future - that drew Pope Benedict XVI, bound to him by a personal affection as well as from a long tradition of work. It is no coincidence that the first Pope in a thousand years beatification of his predecessor. " That of the Polish Pope was the fastest beatification in Church history.
And only six years and one month after his death, Karol Wojtyla was beatified by his successor Benedict XVI. The new party, confirmed the Pope, will be Oct. 22, the anniversary of the election to the papacy. And Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said this evening that John Paul II will become saint in a few years. 
In the evening, the police will talk about one and half million visitors. A moving ceremony. But too much chaos for the people who were unable to enter the square, remaining locked in the sun, without being able to go forward or backward, and especially without being able to see the ceremony from the giant screens and take the papal blessing.
Songs, hugs, tears in his eyes after the Pope kissed the ampulla with the blood of the Great Polish, while waving thousands of flags everywhere. A lot of those red and white of Poland, with pilgrims from Krakow, Warsaw and Gdansk. As soon as the Pope John Paul II beatified, was discovered the tapestry with the image of the new Blessed, Blessings that stands on the balcony of the basilica of St.
Peter, drawn by a beautiful photograph of the Pope in Wadowice, taken in 1995. All around, the whole long column of Bernini, some of the best photos of the pontificate, including one stood out the attack made 30 years ago in this same square. After listening to prayer in the formula given by Joseph Ratzinger, who has strongly backed the successor to John Paul II beatification in a record time, Sister Marie Simon-Pierre, the French woman from the Great Polish miracle, dismissed the tension with a smile, clapping along with the crowd.
"Blessed pater," he said in Latin by Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Agostino Vallini, who promoted the cause of beatification, saying the Latin formula of request to Benedict XVI. Vallini then made a long, at times exciting, story of the life of Wojtyla. The pope's words have thrilled the crowd overflowing.
"Six years ago, at his funeral, we felt wafting the scent of his holiness.'s Why I wanted to, in due respect of the rules of the Church, that the beatification proceeded with reasonable promptness. And then the day since he arrived, he arrived soon, so it seemed good to the Lord: John Paul II blessed.
" Benedict also recalled one of Wojtyla's famous phrases: "Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ! What the newly elected Pope wondered at all, he himself - has marked Ratzinger - he did it first: Christ has opened to society, culture, political and economic systems, reversing the strength of a giant's strength came from God, a trend that could seem irreversible.
" Pope John Paul II, Benedict continued, he returned to Christianity, "the hope that somehow was transferred to Marxism and ideology of progress." And at the end of the homily he added spontaneously, emotional voice and gaze at the sky, turning to his predecessor: "Holy Father, bless us." On the coffin of Pope John Paul II, placed before the altar of the Confession in St.
Peter's Basilica, then half of a long procession, was placed a copy of the Gospel Book of Lorsch, with the pages open. The text of the Middle Ages, is one of the most precious Gospels kept in the Vatican Library and contains the gospels of Luke and John. One hundred celebrants were the cardinals, and more than 800 priests pledged to give communion at the end of the mass.
Chaotic, and huge in number, the arrival of the faithful from Italy and abroad with pilgrims even from Korea. The whole range of neighborhoods around St. Peter's Square has been blocked since the early hours of the morning. By way of conciliation, the road leading to the basilica, the crowd estimated by police and the Vatican press office in more than one million people, flooded the emergency lanes, which should ensure the passage of emergency vehicles.
File uninterrupted faithful busy, unable to go further, all the surrounding squares, and the area of Castel Sant'Angelo, up to Meadows. Groups of nuns have even decided not to approach the place of the beatification: "There were too many people pushing and crowd - said disconsolate. - All pressing to get into St.
Peter's Square, at some point there is no air and we go away. " I had the most far-sighted way to the basilica at 2 am, when they were surprised to open the gates of entry, the scheduled time of 4 hours. Many sicknesses, because of the heat and pressure caused by the crowd of more than 500 people rescued and brought to the medical tents.
A lot of the complaints of those who were unable to enter the square, protesting against the organizers. "We came here - told a group of fallen into a bar in Verona Viale Giulio Cesare in search of a television to watch the stages of the ceremony - and we could not even get the papal blessing." Even before the 10, still waiting for the ceremony, the Hall system of Rome declared, in a message released on Isoradio, that "the Vatican area is saturated," inviting the pilgrims not to travel more in the area close to basilica.
People were thus forced to follow the ceremony from giant screens in the square of the Esquiline, in the yard of St. Paul, the Circus Maximus and also in San Giovanni in Laterano, having regard to coincide with the influx of people about to go to Concertone May 1. Full stage of the authorities, with the front row, the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano.
The Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, made a tour of the chairs to shake hands and greet one by one the guests, including royalty, heads of state and prime ministers. Eighty-eight delegations. The night after the wake last night at the Circus Maximus was spent in the squares and churches, singing, dance, moments of reflection and a few hours of sleep in the open.
After 22.30, after the ceremony, the people of Wojtyla has been poured into the streets of downtown to San Pietro, stopping from time to time, in one of eight churches remained open throughout the night. Among the most sought after, San Filippo Blacks, which was gremitissima between one and five.
While young people of different nationalities in the square danced and sang, in the sacred place in many people tried to sleep lying on one another on the aisles, while others listened, sitting between the benches or huddled on the floor, a priest told stories about John Paul II. Many have confessed, not only in the confessional.
Other groups of pilgrims have followed different paths, also coming to Campo dei Fiori, mixing with the nightlife on Saturday evening in Rome. Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II had already become a bivouac in the open, with hundreds of pilgrims camped in tents, sleeping bags and blankets for the night, waiting for the gates were open because of Reconciliation.
However great happiness among the crowd in the rite of beatification. And strong words written in the editorial this morning on the front page of the future, the bishops' newspaper. John Paul II "was mocked by the powerful when he condemned the war," wrote the correspondent and commentator Luigi Geninazzi.
Ed "has been criticized and opposed even within the Church." The article points out that Pope John Paul II has "raised their voice on many occasions, even angry with his beloved countrymen after the fall of communism chased false model of freedom." The truth about the new Blessed, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference has derived from a phrase of his successor: "John Paul II has moved with the desire to open all over the access roads to Christ, making it feasible to every man the gate to real life.
" "It 's the effective synthesis - says the editorial of the future - that drew Pope Benedict XVI, bound to him by a personal affection as well as from a long tradition of work. It is no coincidence that the first Pope in a thousand years beatification of his predecessor. " That of the Polish Pope was the fastest beatification in Church history.
And only six years and one month after his death, Karol Wojtyla was beatified by his successor Benedict XVI. The new party, confirmed the Pope, will be Oct. 22, the anniversary of the election to the papacy. And Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone said this evening that John Paul II will become saint in a few years.
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