Pontiff to mark All Souls’ Day with Mass at Campo Verano.
Pope Leo XIV is to have fun All Souls’ Day Mass in entrance of the doorway to Campo Verano cemetery in Rome on Sunday 2 November.
The service, commemorating all those that have died, will start at 16.00, the Vicariate of Rome stated on Thursday.
All Souls’ Day, a Catholic custom of mourning the dearly departed, is thought in Italian because the Commemorazione di tutti i fedeli defunti or extra merely il Giorno dei Morti – the day of the useless.
It is a very vital day in Italy when family collect to go to household graves.
Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, visited a number of conflict cemeteries on All Soul’s Day, together with the American Military Cemetery, the French Military Cemetery and the Rome War Cemetery.
The capital’s three major cemeteries – Verano, Laurentino and Flaminio (Prima Porta) – shall be open on 1 November – All Saints’ Day – and a pair of November from 07.30-18.00.
City buses serving these cemeteries have been elevated within the weeks main as much as 2 November.
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