The conclave to choose the successor of Pope Francis begins this Wednesday, with a mass in which They will gather the 133 voting cardinals before locking themselves in the Sistine chapel To start voting.
The day will begin with the Mass In the afternoon, the 133 wandered with the right to vote, for being less than 80 years old, they have been summoned at 16.15 local time (14.15 GMT) in the Pauline chapel of the Apostolic Palace. Then, they will parade singing the litanies and the song ‘Veni Creator’ of invocation of the Holy Spirit until its confinement in the Sistine Chapel, planned a quarter of an hour later.
The cardinals will enter this monumental chapel and, after the oath about the Gospel, the master ceremony, Diego Ravelli, will expel every person outside the conclave with the Latin ‘extra omnes’ formula (be all) and close its doors.
The cardinals will vote in the Sistine Chapel isolated and closed doors and already on Wednesday afternoon the first scrutiny and the first ‘smoking’ (smoke) is expected.
