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          Vatican Information Service
             HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE
             V.I.S.    VIS internet
      04.IV.2005
      Fifteenth Year  - N.63

      SUMMARY:

      - THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II
      - JOHN PAUL'S FUNERAL IS APRIL 8, BURIAL IN  ST. PETER'S BASILICA
      - NOTICES FROM GOVERNORATE OF VATICAN CITY, PRESS OFFICE
      - OFFICE OF CAMERLENGO DATES TO 12TH CENTURY

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++   THE DEATH CERTIFICATE OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II

      VATICAN CITY, APR 4, 2005 (VIS) - Following is the official
death certificate for Pope John Paul II, released yesterday by the
Holy See Press Office:

   "I certify that His Holiness John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)
born in Wadowice (Krakow, Poland) on May 18, 1920, residing in
Vatican City, and a Vatican citizen, died at 9:37 p.m. on April 2,
2005 in his apartment in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City because
of:

       - septic shock.
       - irreversible cardio-circulatory collapse.

       "In a person also affected by:

       - Parkinson's disease.
       - progressive episodes of acute respiratory insufficiency and
       a consequent tracheotomy.
       - benign prostate hypertrophy complicated by urosepsis.
       - hypertensive cardiopathy and ischemia.

   "The ascertainment of death was effected by means of an
electrocardiogram which lasted 20 minutes.

   "I declare that the causes of death, according to my science
and conscience, are those indicated above.

   "Vatican City, April 2, 2005

   "Director of Health and Hygiene of Vatican City State
   "Dr. Renato Buzzonetti"
      .../POPE:DEATH CERTIFICATE/...   VIS 050404 (170)

++   JOHN PAUL'S FUNERAL IS APRIL 8, BURIAL IN  ST. PETER'S BASILICA

      VATICAN CITY, APR 4, 2005 (VIS) - At the end of the morning,
Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls held a briefing
in the Holy See Press Office for accredited journalists on the
following questions:

      "First and Second General Congregations of the Cardinals.

   "The first two General Congregations of the Cardinals in the
period of Vacant See were held this morning in the Bologna Room of
the Vatican Apostolic Palace according to the norms of the Apostolic
Constitution "Universi Dominici gregis" (UDG).

   "Sixty-five cardinals took part in the First Congregation
which began at 10 a.m. They swore an oath according to para 12 of
UDG.

   "In the second General Congregation, the 65 cardinals
present made the most urgent decisions, including the mode of
transferring the body of the deceased pontiff to the Vatican
Basilica, and the date of the funeral Mass for John Paul II.

   "Also present at this morning's General Congregations were
Archbishops Leonardo Sandri, substitute at the Secretariat of State,
Francesco Monterisi, the secretary of the College of Cardinals, and
Piero Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, and several
ceremonial assistants.

      "Transfer of the body of John Paul II.

   "At 5 p.m. today, Monday April 4, the body of John Paul II
will be moved from the Clementine Hall to the Vatican Basilica.

   "After a moment of prayer presided over by Cardinal
Camerlengo Eduardo Martinez Somalo, the transfer of the body will
begin.

   "The procession will proceed along the Scala Nobile, the
First Loggia, the Sala Ducale, the Sala Regia, the Scala Regia and
then, coming through the Bronze Door, it will cross St Peter's
Square and enter the basilica by the central doors.

   "In the Vatican Basilica, the Cardinal Camerlengo will
   preside at the Liturgy of the Word.

   "The visits of the faithful can begin at around 8 p.m.

   "For today it has been decided that the Vatican Basilica
will remain open all night. It will close only from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m.
in order to allow for the technical maintenance of the basilica.

      "Funeral Mass for John Paul II.

   "The funeral Mass for John Paul II will be celebrated on
Friday, April 8 at 10 a.m. in St. Peter's Square.

   "The funeral liturgy will be celebrated by the cardinals and

the patriarchs of the Oriental Churches. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
dean of the College of Cardinals, will preside.

   "At the end of the liturgy, the casket of the Roman Pontiff
will be brought into the Vatican Basilica and then into the Vatican
Grottoes for burial."

   Navarro-Valls noted that the body of John Paul II will rest
in the same place where Blessed Pope John XXIII was entombed. The
remains of the this Pope, who died in 1963, were moved from the
grottos to the Vatican Basilica on June 3, 2001, nine months after
his beatification on September 3, 2000.

      "Next General Congregations.

   "The next General Congregations of Cardinals, as of tomorrow
morning, will take place in the New Synod Hall starting at 10 a.m."
OP/POPE:FUNERAL:BURIAL/NAVARRO-VALLS  VIS 050404 (510)

++   NOTICES FROM GOVERNORATE OF VATICAN CITY, PRESS OFFICE

      VATICAN CITY, APR 4, 2005 (VIS) - The Governorate of Vatican
City State has announced that today, April 4 and on the day of the
funeral of the Holy Father, the Vatican Museums and all other
offices of the Governorate of Vatican City will remain closed as a
sign of mourning.

   Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 5, at 12:30 p.m. in the John Paul
II Room of the Holy See Press Office, Archbishop Piero Marini,
master of Liturgical Ceremonies of the Supreme Pontiff, will hold a
briefing for accredited journalists on "Rites and Legislation of the
Vacant See." This will be transmitted live by the Vatican Television
Center on Telepace. .../.../...    VIS 050404 (120)

++   OFFICE OF CAMERLENGO DATES TO 12TH CENTURY

      VATICAN CITY, APR 4, 2005 (VIS) - A student of the history of
the Roman Curia, in particular the office called the Apostolic
Camera, will find that, as early as the 11th century, the term
"camera thesauraria" (treasure chamber) appeared, describing an
office set up to administer the finances of the Roman Curia and the
temporal goods of the Holy See. Today it performs the latter task
only in the period of "sede vacante" or vacant see.

   In the 12th century, the head of that office was known as
the "camerarius," or camerlengo (chamberlain) - a title which
carries over to today. That same century saw the former offices of
viceroy, treasurer and wardrobe guardian incorporated into this
single department. In the 13th and 14th centuries it acquired
judicial functions in fiscal matters as well as certain penal and
civil cases.

   The camerlengo of Holy Roman Church (to be distinguished
from the camerlengo of the College of Cardinals) was often a
cardinal, but this became mandatory only in the 15th century. Then -
as now - he was assisted by a vice-camerlengo, a general auditor and
chamber clerks, called Cleric Prelates. Today there is also a
notary.

   The current camerlengo of Holy Roman Church is Cardinal
Eduardo Martinez Somalo. He was born March 31, 1927 in Banos de Rio
Tobia in the diocese of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logrono. He was made
a cardinal by Pope John Paul on June 28, 1988, and was appointed
camerlengo on April 5, 1993.

   In the early centuries the camerlengo, individual clerks and
chamber auditor had acquired specific competencies and presided over
special tribunals, though the "camera plena" or full chamber
functioned as a collegial court. Throughout the 19th century the
Camera was above all a tribunal for the pontifical state. With his
Apostolic Constitution "Sapienti Consilio" of June 29, 1908, Pope
St. Pius X confirmed the Apostolic Camera in its functions of
temporal power which it had exercised in the past.

   With Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution "Regimini Ecclesiae
Universae" of August 15, 1967, the Apostolic Camera, presided over
by the Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church, or if he is impeded, by the
vice-camerlengo, preserved the function of caring for and
administering the temporal goods and rights of the Holy See during
the period of "sede vacante," that is, between the death of one Pope
and the election of his successor.

   A reconfirmation of these special duties came with John Paul
II's Apostolic Constitution "Pastor Bonus" of June 28, 1988.

   As
 confirmed by Pope John Paul II in the Apostolic
Constitution "Universi Dominici Gregis" of February 1996, the
camerlengo of Holy Roman Church and the major penitentiary are the
only two heads of curial offices whose functions do not cease during
the "sede vacante." In fact, those of the camerlengo actually
increase during this period. .../PROFILE:CAMERLENGO/...     VIS
050404 (480)

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