Although the conclave to choose the new Pope is always surrounded by the maximum secret, Francisco relieved in an interview in 2019 some details of How was your choice as a pontiff in 2013. In that interview, he confessed that the election was not expected and that for him it was a surprise. “The voting phenomenon is interesting. There are strong candidates, but many people do not know where to give the vote, then choose six or seven,” explained the late Pontiff, who did admit that he sensed that he had about 40 votes in his favor.
“Yes, I had some votes deposit, but nothing. Until noon nothing. Then something happened at lunch. I saw some rare sign. They ask me about health, for those things … and when we returned in the afternoon the cake was cooked and everything ended. For me it was also a surprise, “he said.
Francisco also told the interviewer that he was next to the Brazilian cardinal Hummes, personal friend and a fundamental figure in that conclave: “In the first vote in the afternoon, When I saw that could be irreversibleI had Cardinal Hummes next to me, I approached and told me, ‘Don’t worry, so the Holy Spirit works.’ I was funny. “
Another detail that counted was the applause of the cardinals when the quorum necessary to proclaim the new Pope. “In the second vote, when two thirds were reached, it always applauds, in all the conclaves applaud and follow the scrutiny. He (Hummes) there kissed me and He told me ‘Don’t forget the poor’ And that is what caused the choice of the name after, “said Francisco, who always had very present poverty throughout his pontificate.
He also assured that while the vote “prayed the rosary” and “I had a lot of peace” interior: “For me that was a sign that God wanted that, peace, and to this day I have not lost it.”
Francisco also explained that after being chosen broke the established protocolsomething common throughout her pontificate, as the interviewer is remembered with a lot of humor: “They asked me if I accepted, he said yes, I do not know if they made me play something … Then I changed my cassock and greeted the cardinals. Then I asked the vicar of Rome and Cardinal Hummes, as a friend, to accompany me, which was not in the protocol, what I knew.”
He also confesses that he did not know what to say in his first speech after being chosen Pope: “We went to pray to the Paulina chapel, then I left and I didn’t know what I was going to say And well, everything else is witnesses. “
In the imminent conclave that will now be held in the Vatican, the Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrellin charge as shrimp of the church of the management of the so -called vacant headquarters, it has the mission to supervise the procedures and ensure that everything that happens in the Sistine Chapel remains in secret.
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