The room of tears does exist as a small room next to the sistine chapel.
The room of tears secret box.
He is brought a key to this box it has been said that this box contains the ultimate secret.
It is to allow the new pope to change into papal vestments before receiving the pledges of obedience from his fellow cardinals and then being introduced to the people of rome and to the world from the loggia above st.
The pope enters once he has been officially elected and puts on a robe and is proclaimed as the new pope in a speech.
Are pope s box and room of tears real or just a myth.
The latter claim is false for every known pope barring the incumbent but it remains theoretically possible.
Inside the small space there were documents and other memorabilia but what got my attention was a row of impressive albs chasubles and copes worn by various popes across the years.
A papal conclave is a gathering of the college of cardinals convened to elect a bishop of rome also known as the pope the pope is considered by catholics to be the apostolic successor of saint peter and earthly head of the catholic church.
Understandably tears begin to flow in that room once the poor man realizes the weight of his office.
The purpose of the room of tears is not to examine the pope s body.
The room of tears is very real it is a room off the sistine chapel where a newly elected pope must remove his red cassock and dress in a white cassock.
Unfortunately i find no mention of a box anywhere.
They call it the room of tears named for the sublime mixture of joy and sorrow that he must contemplate at this moment.
This piece of paper reveals the precise nature of the anti christ.
There are three cassocks kept in there a large medium and small.
It holds the secret of the end of the world.
I noticed the specially decorated cope of pope pius vi.