Poor, immigrants and transsexuals, in the front row to receive the Pope’s coffin in Santa María la Mayor

The poor and the vulnerable people have been the protagonists of the last act of Pope Francis’s funeral, as he wanted. Upon the arrival of the coffin to the Basilica of Santa María la Mayor -the place chosen for inhumation -a group of forty poor, prisoners, transsexuals, without roof and immigrants waited for the pontiff, carrying each one of them a white rose in his hand.

They have placed themselves in a privileged place, on both sides of the staircase inside the enclosure, flanking the place where the coffin has passed. He has done it between applause and replace of bells and on the shoulders of the Pontifical thirstthose lay people at the service of the Pope who act as porters and who have been protagonists in these last hours of funeral in Rome.

The Holy See had already anticipated last Thursday that there would be a group of vulnerable people accompanying the remains of the pontiff, because «The poor occupy a privileged place in the heart of God“And in that of the Holy Father,” who chose Francisco’s name to never forget them, “explained the Vatican.

In fact, one of the photographs that this funeral is going to leave is that of Sor Geneviève, the friend’s friend who jumped the protocol on Friday and passed in front of the authorities to be located near the coffin in the Basilica of San Pedro. She was the one who introduced a group of Latin American transsexual prostitutes to which the Pontiff helped.