A The first day belonging conclave Who should choose the successor of Pope Francis. impatience For thousands of people in Plaza -e -San -Pedro, although after a long wait, they were able to check that there was no agreement on Black smoke what came from the fireplace Sistine chapelField
“I was a lot of tired, but I was convinced that they would have chosen it,” he admits among the crowd of Stefania, the Romans, who was waiting for a good new for more than three hours.
A San Pedro Square Vatican and his entourage, which they are crowded this afternoon with some 30 thousand people The fact that they did not separate their eyes from a small fireplace located in the upper part of the Sistinsky chapel, enlarged on the screens at the foot of the basilica.
Inside this chapel, with the final decision of the Miguel of the Angel and the paintings of other teachers in history as the only witnesses, 133 cardinals From the whole world they gathered, isolated the outside world, for choose A New leader Catholic Church.
The tradition sends that the result of its verification is announced on the planet and Christianity with the smoke of its burned voices in the stove and emanating from the chimneys at its heights: white smoking indicates that there is a dad; La Negra, who did not agree.
The Sistine Chapel closed its doors at 5:46 pm. But the result of the first vote was not known until 9:00 pm. And it was, as it was predicted, black.
Waiting for San Pedro has become long. Warm and sunny almost the whole day, which encouraged many to devote time to “springs” or other soda in his hand; But quite fresh after a day, as usual in always unpredictable Roman spring.
“It was a little boring to look at the fireplace for so long. I did not damage my eyes except my legs, although it was worth it, because it is historical, ”says Juan, Buenos -Aires in the Roman holidays, who survived the cobblestone Blakeon on the Vatican Square for three hours.
Nevertheless, this Catholic Argentine will return to San Pedro. He wants, as he admits, a new pontiff, which follows steps like Pope Francis, and which recognizes and respects the “minorities of love”.
Shortly before the chimney confirmed the disagreement, many people began to leave the square, paying forward and decreased, increasing, receiving rumors that the cardinals decided to go for dinner, not vote.
In the end, smoking arrived, scaring random seagull, which fluttered throughout the day at the heights of Sistin, such as theft of the chamber. And at that time, many incredible quickly returned to the square to capture the moment with their cameras or eyes.
This is the case of the Argentinean family. “We were going to leave,” Ilda admits with little white in his arms. “He became long,” her husband Diego Rezne with another daughter, Inma, with his hand in her hand.
Others were more luck and arrived just during smoking. Louis, a resident of Mexico in Rome, recalls that in the afternoon he ate with his girlfriend when his father is in -in -in, to recommend running to the Vatican Square and live at that moment.
“I did not wait much, about 30 minutes. It was something disappointing, because we wanted the new dad to live an experience that you never expected to live … But the whole environment is equally exciting, ”he says. The appointment, promises, you can no longer miss and return to the next vote, without this time you have to warn anyone.
The next day, the slope will again be blocked in a monumental Siktin to continue to look for a new pontiff. Outside, in the square, people will continue to wait.
With information EFE
