(23 Apr 2025)
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Vatican City – 23 April 2025
1. Wide of a large crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Pope’s funeral procession
2. Wide of a crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square as Pope’s coffin is carried by Swiss Guards
3. Wide of people gathering
4. Wide of a procession carrying the Pope’s coffin through a crowded square
5. Wide of a large crowd gathered as a coffin is carried through, taking pictures
6. Wide of clergy in red and white robes forming a procession
7. Various of Swiss Guards and clergy escorting the Pope’s coffin in St. Peter’s Square into Basilica
8. Wide of mourners gathering
9. Procession ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++
STORYLINE:
The bells of St. Peter’s tolled Wednesday as the body of Pope Francis was transferred from the Vatican hotel where he lived to the basilica.
He was escorted by a procession of solemn cardinals and Swiss Guards through the same piazza where he had greeted the faithful from his popemobile just days before in what became his final good-bye.
The body of Pope Francis laid to rest inside an open, red lined wooden casket, was carried by pallbearers on their shoulders through the square into St. Peter’s Basilica among crowds of faithful filming the historic moment with mobile phones.
Mourners in the piazza watched as Francis’ casket passed them by, along the same path he took on Easter Sunday.
It was a surprise salute, which Francis decided at the last minute after being assured by his nurse he could do it despite his continued frail health from pneumonia.
Pallbearers carried the simple wooden coffin on their shoulders through the Vatican’s archway gates with the cardinals in their scarlet cassocks, bishops in their purple robes and the Swiss Guards in their golden and blue uniforms processing slowly behind.
AP video by Andrea Rosa
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