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The funeral of Pope Francis connected Saturday drew a assemblage to St. Peter's Square that included kings and queens, presidents and premier ministers, cardinals and archbishops, arsenic good arsenic hundreds of thousands of devoted followers touched by his committedness to the poor, his defence of the world's migrants, and his outreach to those agelong marginalized by the church.
Though the famously humble pontiff requested simplicity successful his woody coffin and final resting place, the ceremonial Mass inactive reflected the grandeur and traditions of the Vatican. See photos beneath of immoderate of the highlights of the time honoring the person known arsenic "the People's Pope."
Crowd fills St. Peter's Square for Pope Francis' funeral
An estimated 250,000 radical attended the ceremonial work extracurricular St. Peter's Basilica astatine the Vatican.
Members of the clergy among the assemblage attending the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square connected April 26, 2025 successful Vatican City.
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A statue gazes down connected clergy members successful reddish and achromatic vestments astatine the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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An aerial presumption of the assemblage astatine St. Peter's Square during Pope Francis's ceremonial connected April 26, 2025.
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Pallbearers transportation the coffin of Pope Francis
Pallbearers transportation the coffin of Pope Francis astatine his ceremonial work astatine St. Peter's.
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A enactment of clergy and pallbearers carrying Pope Francis' coffin record into St Peter's Basilica astatine the extremity of the ceremonial ceremony.
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World leaders ticker from the beforehand enactment arsenic pallbearers transportation the coffin of Pope Francis astatine his funeral.
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Church regalia connected display
With Swiss Guards successful the foreground, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re speaks astatine the ceremonial Mass for Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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Members of the clergy hold successful their seats up of the ceremonial for Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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A oversea of reddish vestments astatine the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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Members of the clergy among the assemblage attending the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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High ranking clergy look from St. Peter's Basilica for the ceremonial Mass of Pope Francis.
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Cardinals of the Eastern and Oriental Catholic Churches get to wage a past infinitesimal of respect successful beforehand of the coffin of Pope Francis during the ceremonial ceremony.
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Youssef Absi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the Orient, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, and caput of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, blesses with myrrh the coffin of precocious Pope Francis during the ceremonial ceremony.
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Cardinals get astatine the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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An Orthodox clergyman snaps a photograph successful St. Peter's Square.
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President Trump and satellite leaders successful attendance
The Vatican said delegations from astir 130 countries would be the ceremony, including astir 50 heads of authorities and 10 reigning monarchs. President Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump were there, and former President Joe Biden besides attended. Before the funeral, Mr. Trump met privately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
France's President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with President Trump up of the ceremonial for Pope Francis astatine St. Peter's Square.
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President Donald Trump and archetypal woman Melania Trump astatine the ceremonial of Pope Francis.
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President Trump and his woman Melania Trump basal with different satellite leaders during the ceremonial ceremonial for Pope Francis.
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President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are shown gathering up of the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful the Vatican.
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Former President Joe Biden and his woman Jill Biden get for helium ceremonial for Pope Francis astatine St Peter's Square.
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Prayers from the faithful for Pope Francis
The faithful commune astatine the ceremonial Mass for the precocious Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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Clergy commune by the coffin of Pope Francis during his funeral.
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Nuns stitchery for the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square successful Vatican City.
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Priests connection Communion to those attending the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful Vatican City.
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As Pope Francis' ceremonial took spot astatine the Vatican, Catholic believers attended a requiem Mass for him successful Dili, East Timor, wherever helium visited past year.
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Funeral Mass and homily honoring "a pope among the people"
The Mass was led by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, who besides delivered a highly idiosyncratic homily.
"He was a pope among the people, with an unfastened bosom towards everyone," Re said of Pope Francis, who died astatine the property of 88. "The guiding thread of his ngo was besides the condemnation that the religion is simply a location for all, a location with its doors ever open."
The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, prays astatine the closed coffin during the ceremonial Mass for Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re speaks astatine the ceremonial of Pope Francis.
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin of Pope Francis during the ceremonial ceremony.
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Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin of Pope Francis during the ceremonial ceremony.
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Crowds wage their past respects to Pope Francis
After the ceremonial Mass, the coffin of Pope Francis was taken successful a procession done the streets of Rome to his last resting place, the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (St. Mary Major). In his last volition and testament, Francis asked to beryllium buried successful that fifth-century religion dedicated to the Virgin Mary, wherever helium went to commune earlier and aft his overseas travels arsenic pontiff.
A nun attends the ceremonial of Pope Francis successful St. Peter's Square.
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Crowds stitchery to ticker the procession of the Popemobile carrying the coffin of Pope Francis done the streets of Rome to his last resting place.
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People stitchery on streets adjacent the Colosseum to ticker the ceremonial procession.
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Members of the clergy and a typical radical described by the Vatican arsenic the "poor and needy" invited the coffin of Pope Francis arsenic it arrives astatine the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for burial.
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The coffin of Pope Francis is carried by pallbearers into Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica successful Rome for his burial.
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"Grazie Papa Francisco!"
A antheral successful Rome holds up a paper with the header "Grazie Papa Francisco!" (Thank you, Pope Francis) connected the time of the the pope's funeral, April 26, 2025.
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