Books of condolence open in Northern Ireland after Pope Francis’s death

The condolence books have opened in Northern Ireland after the death of Pope Francis.

The public members can sign Belfast’s condolence book in the City Council, while a special meeting of the Council to reflect on the Pope’s legacy will take place in Belfast on Thursday.

In Londanderry, the public can leave a written message in Derry’s Guildhall and Alley Theater in Strabane.

An online condolence book is also available at www.belfastcity.gov.uk and www.erstrabane.com

In Belfast, Lord Mayor Micky Murray officially opened the book, while Father Tim Bartlett, the main organizer of the deceased Pope to Ireland in 2018, was present.

The City Council will also light in the papal colors of yellow and white on Saturday to coincide with the day of its funeral.

In a statement, the mayor of the Distry District Council and the city of Strabane, Lilian Staroi-Barr, offered “deposit sympathies” to Archbishop Eamon Martin, the clergy and all members of the Catholic Church.

She said there has been a “great effusion of sadness and complaint” in Derry and Strabane since the death of Pope Francis on Monday.

“The compassion, humility and courage that exhibited the duration that their papacy had an impact on the lives of so many people locally and I want to give the public an exit to record their feelings and sympathy,” he added.

Fr. Peter McANenly, pastor of thermonmagirc, was in Dungannon to sign the book of condolence to Pope Francis.

Fr. McAnenly with Pope Francis on several occasions and had an audience with him last September in Rome.

“It was a privilege and a blessing to be in his presence and there was something unique and special about man as such and we have seen it in recent days, he has inspired many people, including myself.”

He said: “Pope Francis has been a wonderful servant for the Church and it is appropriate for condemole books to be here so that local people express their attitude for the man who was him.

“I know that by my own party, people were surprised on Monday morning when the news appeared, especially because we all saw the images of Easter Sunday in the people of San Pedro Greetings and we offered all a host of a few Shoun.

“But I think there is a true sense of gratitude for the man who was and for the wonderful legacy he has left,” he added.

It was a brilliant and fresh morning in Rome when the city woke up with its first full day without any Francis.

The pilgrims gathered last night in the Plaza de San Pedro for a special rosary, appropriate for the Pope who ended with each public speech asking people to pray for him. They are expected to return in an even greater number today.

Meanwhile, normal life continues while people have their coffee in the morning and go to work. The city does not close during the nine official mourning days as it used to do it, Althegh the Colosseum will close tonight as a brand or respect.

However, there is a sense of sadness in the city and gratitude. When we arrived at Fiumicino airport last night, we were received with images bigger than the life of Pope Francis with a single word: Grazie.

The members of the public have been paying tribute to Pope Francis in the services of the island of Ireland.

On Wednesday, a special Mass of Requiem will take place at Knock Basilica, Mayo del County, at 7:30 p.m. local time.

Tens of thousands of people challenged the heavy rain for a look at Pope Francis when he visited the sanctuary in 2018.

Duration his visit to Knock, Pope Francis said that no one could stop being moved by stories of those who “suffered abuse, were stolen from their innocence and left in scars by painful memories,” and reiterated his desire to see justice.

When celebrating the Mass in Phoenix Park Duning the same visit, he lists a litany of different types of abuse and abuse inflicted to the Irish by church figures and the cover -up of sexual crimes.

On each occasion he apologized, the congregation applauded.

Pope Francis followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, who visited Dublin and Knock in September 1979.

The Marian Sanctuary of Knock is a known place of Catholic pilgrimage in western Ireland.

It is estimated that 1.5 million pilgrims from full Ireland, and from around the world, go to the sanctuary every year to pray in the place where it is said that an appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, appeared in August 1879.

After the team, miraculous priests were reported. The first was Delia Gordon, a 12 -year -old girl who had been deaf and suffered a horrible pain.

It is said that her parents touch her to the sanctuary where she dries before the place where the team was sea. His mother picked up a piece of cement from the water wall, blessed him and put it in his daughter’s ear. The pain went immediately and she was no longer deaf.

From the team, pilgrims have come to seek healing, reconciliation and peace. Some of them are praying for a cure.