Pope Francis’s Funeral in pictures: 400,000 people pay their respects

Pope Francis’s Funeral in pictures: 400,000 people pay their respects

Pope Francis’s funeral brought together leaders from across the globe with potentially historic consequences as presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky sat down together

Pope Francis’s funeral brought the least and the greatest together

In the story of Pope Francis’s papacy, the same thread ran through the first and final chapters. On the evening of his election in 2013, he appeared on St Peter’s balcony dressed in plain white – shunning the red papal mozetta – delivering a simple “buonasera” with a shy wave to the rapturous and adoring crowds. Just as he kept things simple then, he opted for a modest wood coffin today rather than the three-casket option made of cypress, lead a…

ROME.- Rome Caput Mundi, “Rome head of the world”. The Latin expression sums up to perfection what was experienced this Saturday during Francis’ impressive solemn funeral, which attracted this capital—totally collapsed and shielded by a historic event—the world’s powerful and a crowd moved by his death. In total, some 400,000 people came with fervor and gratitude to bid farewell to Jorge Bergoglio: 250,000 to the funeral in St. Peter’s Square an…

Pope Francis, remembered for his closeness to the disinherited, the migrants and the victims of the wars, was dismissed this Saturday, April 26 at an emotional ceremony at the Vatican The entrance 400,000 people fired Pope Francis at an emotional funeral at the Vatican #27Apr was first published in El Impulso.

More than 400,000 people, according to the Italian authorities, gathered this Saturday in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican to pay homage to Pope Francis, who died on 21 April at the age of 88. At least 50 heads of state and members of royal houses attended the ceremony to give the last farewell to Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first Latin American pontiff, the first Jesuit to take office and the first to adopt the name of Francis, in honor of San …

In a comment given by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi to TG5, it is estimated that at least 400,000 people thronged the streets of Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis. This number of people were present both in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, as well as in the surrounding area, as Pope Francis' coffin passed through many streets in the Italian capital until it arrived at the place where he will be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore. …