On March 12, the cardinals filed into the Sistine Chapel and cut themselves from outside communication.
Before the 115 voting cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday, they filed into St.
No one is going to dress up as a cardinal and sneak into the Sistine Chapel.
Tomorrow the College of Cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel just after a mass at St.
Video shown at a Vatican news conference showed workers preparing the Sistine Chapel for the secretive conclave.
With the beginning of the conclave, Cardinal electors are sealed in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
Weeks later a conclave of cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel, electing him pope on April 19, 2005.
Cardinals traditionally pay homage to the new pope in the Sistine Chapel by promising obedience and kissing his hand.
Before the 115 voting cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel, they filed into St.
If the ballot is inconclusive, black smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel.
The chemicals are contained in five units of a cartridge that is placed inside the stove of the Sistine Chapel.
The next Pope will be chosen by members of a 117-strong conclave held in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
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The next Pope will be chosen by members of a 117-strong nominating conclave held in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.
When he became Pope Francis, Bergoglio expressed the same sentiment in his very first formal remarks, delivered at the Sistine Chapel.
Jamming devices in the Sistine Chapel should block all electronic communication and anyone tweeting would in any case risk being excommunicated.
Three sizes of white cassocks hang in the Room of Tears off the Sistine Chapel, waiting to cloak the new pontiff.
The Sistine Chapel, where the cardinal-electors meet for the secretive conclave, is not yet being prepared for the process, Lombardi said.
The domed living room ceiling is covered with replicas of Michelangelo's frescoes from the Sistine Chapel, all handpicked by his wife, Villoo.
Short stature is no bar to enjoyment of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
The Mass with the cardinals will take place at the Sistine Chapel.
White smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel's chimney will indicate a selection.
The Tuesday start gives cardinals more time to deliberate in the Sistine Chapel and get home in time for Holy Week this month.
They will meet in the Sistine Chapel and be housed in a closely monitored residence inside the Vatican city, the Casa Santa Marta.
If you secretly tag along with a tour group, you can slip into the Basilica from the Sistine Chapel without having to queue again.
It could be several days before white smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a new Pontiff has been elected.
Tourists and pilgrims are continuing to visit the Sistine Chapel -- famed for the ceiling painted by Michelangelo -- at the moment, Lombardi said.
The Sistine Chapel, whose famous ceiling was painted by Renaissance artist Michelangelo, has been closed to tourists while the preparations for the conclave are made.
This does not mean they literally live in the Sistine Chapel.
At that point, attention focused on the world's only point of contact with the cardinals: A slim smokestack protruding from the top of the Sistine Chapel.
The secret process got under way earlier Tuesday, a day rich with symbolism as the scarlet-clad cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel in solemn procession, chanting prayers.
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