In Veneto City of Schiavon, Italy, Waiting for paper locked He turned the local Caffe headquarters into the buzzing hub and aperitif.
Locals and journalists gathered, the eyes are fixed on the large television screen of the image of the images from St. Peter square, specifically on the chimney Sijna chapel.
As 133 cardinals throw their initial votesby city Šišovon, near Vicenze, sipping wine and waited First smoking smoke.
Much of the local interest focused on Cardinal Pietro ParolinPapal Favorite and Gender son of Veneto region.
“We are waiting, and root for him,” Giacomo Bonor said, raising the glass of red wine spritz, local favorites.
Mr. Bonor headed to Cardinal Parolin by his local nickname, “Don Piero”, a term of love who is usually used for parish priests in Veneto dialect.
He noted that when Cardinal Parolin returned to his hometown of 2,600, she prefers this famous address over the formal title “Eminence”.
The scene in Schiavon offered a view to a personal relationship between the small Italian city and its cardinal, now a prominent figure at the world stage during the key moment for Catholic Church.
Cardinal Parolin, 70, is a veteran diplomat that was Papa FrancisState Secretary, essentially Prime Minister of St. Council and no. 2 on the Pope.
Outside the city worker stopped showing the parish sakristac photo of the cardinal paroline when the city celebrated the above sea jurisdiction in the State Secretary 12 years ago. Everyone is hoping, but officials are instructed not to talk to the media until the new Pope is selected.
Angelo Cisalto, Sakristanac in the parish church of Margherit, headed home to take care of smoke from the chimney.
If white, his job is to go and ring the church bells.
Mr. Cisalto, 84, remembers the cardinal paroline as a child, 14 years of his junior, and is always pious.
“He used to dress like an altar, and at home he had a small altar in his garage,” where he would play the Mass, Mr. Cisalto recalled. “He is a very good, very good, very modest person.”
Return to Caffè Centrale, clients ordered cold cuts, while the closed cardinal meeting was pulled long from which the last time was drawn. TV Journalists whose air times went on the night. Finally, black smoke appeared.
“We’ll do it again tomorrow,” Mr. Bonor said.
The locals reminded that Cardinal Parolin was regularly reached to Schiavon before his mother died last summer. His father died when he was 10 years old, and he entered the seminary in the nearby vicinzy in 14. In the period, the parish was at the foot of Schio before he joined VaticanDiplomatic corpus.
Although closely connected to Francisco’s pontificates, Cardinal Parolin is much more mortality in personality and diplomatic in their approach leading from Argentina who served – and he knows where the Catholic Church could need the correction of the case.
Many see it as if embodied Francis’s pastoral message, while they are more open for conservative points of view. While his career was spent in Italy, his job as a Vatican diplomat saw him traveling the world, giving him a global perspective.
If he was elected, he would return Italian for papacy after three consecutive aliens: St. John Paul II (Poland), Pope Benedict XVI (Germany) and Francis (Argentina).