The coffin of Pope Francis arrived on Saturday at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for burial, following his funeral at the Vatican.
AFP reports that the Pope’s coffin left the Vatican on a white popemobile following his funeral at St Peter’s Square on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of people lined the route as the popemobile carrying the coffin of the Argentine, who died on Monday aged 88, was driven to his final resting place.
According to reports, tens of thousands of mourners flooded into St Peter’s Square on Saturday for the funeral of Pope Francis, the champion of the poor and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American leader.
Some people waited overnight to be first in the queue for the ceremony, attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky who met briefly in St. Peter’s basilica on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral.
The Argentine pontiff, who died on Monday aged 88, sought to steer the centuries-old Church into a more inclusive direction during his 12-year papacy.
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