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The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral Mass in Vatican City, where mourners joined in a ...
Pope Francis, who reigned for 12 years, was laid to rest Saturday at the St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. He is the first ...
Some 250,000 people flocked to the funeral Mass and tens of thousands more lined the motorcade route, clapping and cheering ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is being laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony reflecting his priorities as pope and wishes as ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — From some of the world’s most powerful leaders to those on society’s margins whom Pope Francis always ...
It's very beautiful that he's going back, having concluded his ministry, to the place where it began," Father Patrick Briscoe ...
Proceedings began at 10am local time (9am BST) with the service taking place at St Peter's Basilica in front of 200,000 ...
After the Mass, Francis' coffin was placed on an open-air popemobile and tranported to the burial site outside the Vatican by a motorcade that traversed the streets of Rome, lined by cheering crowds.
Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. But Francis will be the first pontiff in more ...