{"id":43599,"date":"2022-08-11T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/08\/11\/pope-francis-gives-final-blessing-at-cardinal-tomkos-funeral-in-st-peters-basilica\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:26:00","slug":"pope-francis-gives-final-blessing-at-cardinal-tomkos-funeral-in-st-peters-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/08\/11\/pope-francis-gives-final-blessing-at-cardinal-tomkos-funeral-in-st-peters-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis gives final blessing at Cardinal Tomko's funeral in St. Peter's Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Jozef Tomko was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals. He passed away at the age of 98 and his funeral was held in St. Peter's Basilica.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, reflected on the late cardinal's life and dedicated a few words to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARD. GIOVANNI BATTISTA RE<br \/>\nDean of the College of Cardinals<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>We are gathered around the altar of the Lord to pray and to bid a fraternal farewell to Cardinal Jozef Tomko. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the Eucharistic celebration, Pope Francis presided over the Final Commendation and Valediction rite in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Jozef Tomko was created a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>RM<\/p>\n<p>TR: KG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 10, 2022. Cardinal Tomko was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VU4I8d8BAnQ","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/besequiejoseftomkoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/besequiejoseftomkoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}