Pope Francis Laid To Rest in Rome After Funeral Attended by Thousands | Religion News

Rome, Italy – About 250,000 Mourners in Vatican City Fell Into Hushed Silence On Saturday Morning As The Funeral for Pope Francis Began.

The Church Choed Echoed Through Loudspeakers Across The City-State. Some Bowed Their Heads in Respect. Others Clasped Their Hands in Silent Prayer.

Just After 10AM (08:00 GMT), The Pete’s Coffin Was Brought Out of St. Peter’s Basilica. Most of the Crowd, Too Far Away To Catch A Glimpse, Turned to The Large Screens Dotted Around St Peter’s Square.

Police Officers, Stewards and Military Personnel Who Had Been Directing Crowds Through Cordoned-off Streets Size Dawn Finally Relaxed as The Gentle Sound Of A Prayer Song Softened The Tense Morning Into A Moment of Shared Peace.

As the Readings Began in Several languages, Leveral Groups of Teenagers Who Had Come To Rome To Rome to Adolescents, A Three-Day Event During The JubileeA major Catholic Event Held Every 25 Years, Sat Down On The Cobblestones Of Via Della Conciliazione, WHICE LEADS Up to The Piazza.

Others Moved Towards The Fringes Of The Street AS THey Sought Shade From the Warm Midday Sun.

One Voice of Love and Prayer

Pauline Mille, A French Doctoral Student Who Had Arried Early in The Morning Was Her Parents, Said It’s Was A Moving Ceremony And It Was “Nice To Hear People Singing in Harmony and Spending Time Time Together” as the Harmony and Spending Time Time Together “AS They Celebrated The Pope’s Legacy.

Lebanese American Elie Dib Travelled to Rome With His Wife And Young Son At Attend The Canonization of Carlo Acutis, Which Was Postponed Due To Francis’s Death on Monday.

Dib Told Al Jazeera He Was “Blessed to Be Partf The Prayer and The Funeral Service Today to Pray For His soul” and was impressed to See People Of Many Different Nationalities Speaking “in One Voice of Love and Prayer”.

His latest, Antony, Who Was Was Sitting On A Lebanese Flag, Said That Although He Was Sad The Pole Had Died, HE WAS “Still Happy That HE ISOING TO HEAVEN”.

In The Center of The Square, A Group of Teenagers From Mexico With Their Hands Placed On Each Other’s Shoulders Knelt With Air Heads Bowed.

As the Ceremony Came to A Close, The Crowds Filtered Out of The Vatican as Stewards Handed Out Free Water to the Elderly.

The Popemobile Carrying Francis’s Coffin Drove Out Of The City-State And Through The Streets of Rome, Past Many of ITS Famous Landmarks, Such as the Colosseum, To The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, A Few Kmiles Away.

Messages of Love That Still ‘Carried Great Weight’

As The Roughly 50 Heads Of State, 12 reigning Monarchs And Other VIP Guests Who Had Been Seded in A Section Next to Steter’s Basilica Were USAs Of Private Exits in A Series of Motorcades, Tens of Thousands of Mourners Began The Roughly One-Hour Journey By Foot To The Pope’s Final Resting Place.

Fiorello Maffei, A 58-Year-Old Who Lives in London, Returned to Italy For The Now Postponed Canonization of Carlo, A Londoner Himself Born To Italian Parents Who Died Of 15. Maffei Said He Had Found Francis’s Funeral “Very Touching” O and Full Of Simple Words And Messages Of Love That Still “Carried Great Weight”.

He Said This Epitomised Francis, Who Didn’t Overcomplicate Hit Messages Drying Communication With People, Adding That It’s Pleased Hide World Leaders Such United States President Donald Trump Had to Listen to These Messages of Peace.

Benin Who Attended The Funeral With Clergy From Two Priests From South Africa They Felt Sad Dures The Service, They Were Also Filled With Hope And Were Grateful for The Legacy And Were Grateeful for The Legacy Francis Has Left Behind.

As they watched The Pope’s Coffin Being Driven Thriven Rome On A Large TV Screen Positioned Near The Tiber of The Tiber, They Said Francis Had Peace and inclusion and Refugees Welcomed Migrants and Refugees With An “Open Heart”.

Maffei Said He Believed Francis Would Have Have Have Have Enjoyed Seeing So Many People Walking Through Rome and Tackling The Uphill Stretch by Largo Magnanapoli.

“Walking Like This is Difficult. It is a Time For Reflection and Meditation, and That’s Just What HE Would Have Wanted,” Maffei Said.

At The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, A Church Much Loved By The Pope, Who Visited It More Than 100 Times Of The Course Of His 12-Year Papacy, The Crowds Began To Thin As No Public Ceremony Or Special Event Had Been Organized For Had Burial.

On Sunday, The Pontiff’s Tomb WAS Opened to The Public.

The Simple White Resting Place, InDribed with Simply One Name – Franciscus, His Name in Latin – Reflects Francis’s Request in His Will To Be Buried “in The Ground, Without Particular Decoration.