Touching note Pope Francis will be buried with as he's laid to rest after service
- Pope Francis died at the age of 88, and his funeral service has begun amid hundreds of thousands of mourners in Vatican City.
- An obituary inside his coffin describes him as a 'simple and much-loved shepherd' who valued humanity and universal fatherhood, placing importance on his love for the poor and dialogue with other religions.
- Pope Francis will be buried in the Basilica of St Mary Major, following a procession and requiem mass, after three days of public viewings attended by 250,000 people.
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The ‘loving’ note Pope Francis will be buried with inside his coffin revealed
The Pope’s coffin has been sealed and his body will be transferred to his final resting place (Picture: Getty) The funeral service for Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88, is well underway, and the touching obituary the pontiff was entombed with has been revealed. The Pope’s coffin was sealed hours ago, before being brought out of St Peter’s Basilica into the square. With his body, an obituary describing his tenure as 266th Pope of the Catho…


Pope Francis to be buried with heartwarming note in final tribute to late Pontiff
Deed honouring Francis’s life recalls ‘a simple and much-beloved pastor’ who loved the poor
Here is what is written in the Rogito for the Pious Transit of Pope Francis: his life close to the last
The document reports its life and works, was read on the evening of April 25 during the ritual of the closing of the coffin of the Pontiff, in the Basilica of St. Peter
Twelve coins, a silk veil, the 'rogito'... The valuable items that are deposited in the coffin of Pope Francis before the burial
Italy has put in place a maximum security device before the funeral of Pope Francis to be held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square of the Vatican. The exequias have their script, written since last year by the pontiff himself. It is the Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis that Bergoglio approved in 2024 to try to reduce the ceremonial excesses. Francisco renewed the rite of the exequias to restore pompousness but highlighting its pastoral and spiri…
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