The Powerful, Marginalised, 250,000 Mourners Pay Final Respect To Pope Francis
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In St Peter’s Square, 250,000 mourners attended the funeral of Pope Francis to pay their final respects.
The powerful and the marginalised were brought together to say a final farewell to a man who “touched minds and hearts” and wanted to “build bridges, not walls”, as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said of Francis during the service.
World leaders, including Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, joined an estimated 400,000 mourners who lined the streets of Rome and gathered in the Vatican.
In Argentina, South Korea, and many other parts of the globe, Catholics mourned the late Pope in churches, Cathedrals and public spaces.
After the funeral, a sombre procession through Rome’s streets led Pope Francis to Santa Maria Maggiore basilica – a 4th century church in Rome. He had requested this be his final resting point, making him the first pope not to be buried in St Peter’s Basilica in over 100 years.
Nine days of mourning known as Novemdiales now begins, with a mass held every day in Francis’ memory.
Attention now turns to who the next Pope will be, in our previous post we explained how the process works.
We’ll soon be ending our live coverage, but our final post of this historic day – coming next – is from our reporter Laura Gozzi in Rome.
BBC NEWS
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on Apr 27 2025. Filed under International, National.
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