Quiet reverence and a ripple of applause for ‘the people’s pope’

Quiet reverence and a ripple of applause for ‘the people’s pope’

Presidents, prime ministers and princes alike gathered for the funeral mass of Pope Francis. The strong aroma of incense heralded the emergence of Pope Francis’s coffin into the sunlight from St Peter’s Basilica. Its scent, wafting through the air, travelled as high as the terrace overlooking St Peter’s Square onto which media were packed to cover a funeral of global proportions. Presidents, prime ministers and princes alike had arrived in the h…

Upon the arrival of Pope Francis' coffin on St Peter's Square, then after the Mass was over, applause and applause resounded.

After immense silence, the Vatican guards moved the pontiff’s coffin from inside St. Peter’s Basilica outwards, where thousands of people were waiting to fire Pope Francis for the last time.

Upon the arrival of the coffin of Pope Francis in St Peter's Square, then after the Mass, applause and cheers were heard in the crowd of the 250,000 people who came to pay tribute one last time to the pontiff "close to the little ones". This is the time they had been waiting for since the early morning: the arrival shortly after 10h00 of the coffin of wood and zinc on the imposing parvis of St Peter's Basilica, in Rome. The grandiose ceremonial,…

On Saturday 26 April, at the arrival of the coffin of Pope Francis on St Peter's Square, after the Mass was over, applause and cheers were heard among the crowd of 250,000 people who came to pay tribute one last time to the "pap close to the little ones" who had made his last official trip to Ajaccio last December. This is the time they had been waiting for since the early morning: the arrival shortly after 10 hours of the coffin of wood and zin…