Vatican City, Rome is now allowing visitors a first-time opportunity to view Pope Francis’s tomb after he was laid to rest there yesterday.
The 88-year-old pontiff was buried in a private ceremony in Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore (St Mary Major), following an outdoor funeral mass at the Vatican where an estimated crowd of 250,000 gathered, cramming St Peter’s Square and nearby roads.
Pope Francis’s tomb is inscribed with a single word – Franciscus, which is his name in Latin.
Catholic faithful has begun visiting the tomb today – with queues of people forming to file past his final resting place. Footage and images showed a single white rose at the pontiff’s simple white tomb. A light cast its warm glow over the tomb and a reproduction of the late pontiff’s pectoral cross on the wall above it.
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