Tuesday after the closing evening of the Vatican Basilica, the Holy Father
Francis made a visit to the tomb of Blessed Pope John Paul II, the eighth
anniversary of his death. The Pope has stopped a
long kneeling in silent prayer before the tomb of Blessed John Paul II in the
Chapel of St. Sebastian, but he also paused briefly in recollection to the tombs of the
Blessed John XXIII and St. Pius X. As of the day before the visit to the tomb of St. Peter and the Caves
Vatican, the visit to the Basilica on Tuesday expressed its profound spiritual continuity
of the Petrine ministry of the Popes, that Pope Francis lives and feels intensely, as
demonstrated ...