“At 8 p.m., Vatican spokesman Joaquin
Navarro-Valls explained “the celebration of Mass
for Divine Mercy Sunday began in the Holy Father's
room, presided by Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz
with the participation of Cardinal Marian
Jaworski, of Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko and of
Msgr. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki.”
During the Mass, the Holy Father received
Holy Communion and the Anointing of the
Sick.
“The Holy Father's final hours were marked
by the uninterrupted prayer of all those who were
assisting him in his pious death, and by the
choral participation in prayer of the thousands of
faithful who, for many hours, had been gathered in
St. Peter's Square,” said the Vatican
statement.
Present at the moment of the death of John
Paul II were his two personal secretaries,
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz and Msgr. Mieczyslaw
Mokrzycki, Cardinal Marian Jaworski, Archbishop
Stanislaw Rylko, Fr. Tadeusz Styczen, the three
nuns, Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
who assist in the Holy Father's apartment, and the
Pope's personal physician Dr. Renato Buzzonetti,
with the two doctors on call, Dr. Alessandro
Barelli and Dr. Ciro D'Allo, and the two nurses on
call.
According to Navarro-Valls, “immediately
afterwards Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo
Sodano arrived, as did the Chamberlain of the Holy
Roman Church, Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo,
Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the
Secretariat of State, and Archbishop Paolo Sardi,
Vice-Chamberlain of Holy Roman
Church.
“Thereafter, Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, dean of the College of Cardinals, and
Cardinal Jozef Tomko also
arrived”.
