Pope Francis was buried at a church in Rome after a funeral mass in St Peter’s Sq..
World leaders together with US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, President of the European Fee Ursula von der Leyen, Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, had been additionally current through the funeral.
From India, President Droupadi Murmu is attending the funeral, accompanied by Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State George Kurian, and Goa Deputy Speaker Joshua De Souza.
Earlier, the Vatican formally ended the mendacity in state of Pope Francis, sealing his coffin throughout a non-public spiritual ceremony inside St. Peter’s Basilica after three days of public mourning attended by round 250,000 guests, ANI reported citing CNN.
Pope Francis, who was the primary pontiff from Latin America and the primary from the Jesuit order, had requested less complicated funeral rites. In line with his needs, his physique was positioned in a single wood coffin, foregoing the normal triple-layered coffins of cypress, lead, and oak that had been utilized in earlier papal funerals.
The ceremony was led by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, who oversees funeral preparations following the dying of a pope. Farrell, a Dublin-born cleric and naturalised American citizen, beforehand served as Bishop of Dallas.
(With ANI inputs)