Pope Francis was buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major on Saturday afternoon, after hundreds of thousands of people from global leaders to the impoverished and marginalised paid their respects to the man celebrated for his humility and humanity.
The rites for the pontiff, who died at the age of 88 earlier this week, were more modest than for past popes, as he wished, and he was laid to rest in his favourite church in Rome after a two-hour funeral service held in St Peter’s…
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