Pope Francis has visited quite possibly of the biggest jail in Italy, opening an exceptional “heavenly entryway” for the Catholic church’s 2025 celebration, in what the Vatican depicted as a “memorable move” as it is whenever a holy gateway first has been opened at a prison.

Addressing many detainees on Thursday at the Rebibbia jail on the edges of Rome, in a token of desire to show his closeness to prisoners, Francis said he needed to open the entryway, part of the jail church, and one of just five that will be open during the “blessed year”, to show that “trust doesn’t dishearten”.

“I needed the second sacred entryway I open to be here at a jail,” said the pope, who started off the “celebration of trust” by opening the blessed entryway of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday.

In the ecclesiastical bull denoting the celebration, named “Spes non confundit” (trust doesn’t dishearten), the pope has called for types of reprieve or absolution for detainees and for “pathways of reintegration” committed to them, as well concerning “the abrogation of capital punishment”.

Talking at the early afternoon Angelus administration, the pope portrayed jail as a sort of “church building of torment and trust”.

Francis said: “I like to consider trust the anchor that is on the shore and, with the rope, we are protected. Try not to lose trust: this is the message I need to give you, to give us all … on the grounds that trust won’t ever frustrate.

“In awful minutes, we can all think that everything is finished. Try not to lose trust. This is the message I needed to give you. Try not to lose trust.”

Over the course of the following a year, Catholic travelers will go through the entryway – which is regularly bricked up – by custom profiting from a “whole guilty pleasure”, a kind of mercy for their transgressions.

Pope Francis opened the main heavenly entryway of St Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Eve, sending off the celebration year of Catholic festivals, which will draw in excess of 30 million pioneers to Rome.

Coordinated by the congregation like clockwork, the celebration is planned as a time of reflection and retribution, and is set apart by an extensive rundown of social and strict occasions, from masses to shows, meetings and shows.

The celebration, whose maxim this year is “travelers of trust”, is focused on the world’s practically 1.4 billion Catholics, yet in addition means to contact a more extensive crowd. As well as the customary celebrations like clockwork, the congregation has coordinated exceptional celebrations, the latest in 2016. The following is in 2033 to celebrate the execution of Jesus Christ.