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POPE Francis, the 266th<\/sup> Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, was laid to rest <\/strong>at St. Mary Major Basilica <\/strong>in Rome following solemn, hours-long funeral rites at S.t Peter\u2019s Square in the Vatican.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hundreds of thousands of mourners joined world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, to bid farewell Saturday to Pope Francis popularly known as the People\u2019s Pope and a champion of the poor.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to the Vatican, 400,000 people packed St Peter’s Square and lined the streets of Rome for the funeral of the first Latin American leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Applause and cheers rang out as Pope Francis\u2019s wooden coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was carried by 14 white-gloved pallbearers through the main doors of St Peter\u2019s Basilica to the outdoor funeral service.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Among the royals and global leaders who attended Pope Francis\u2019 funeral aside from Trump were French President Emmanuel Macron, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, European Union leaders, and Prince William of the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who initially said he could not attend due to new Russian attacks, was also in attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also present in the funeral of the People\u2019s Pope were former US President Joe Biden, alongside other world leaders, including Argentina\u2019s President Javier Milei, Brazil\u2019s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Lebanon\u2019s General Joseph Aoun.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After a solemn funeral, the Argentine pontiff’s plain wooden coffin — a testament to a life of humility — was driven slowly to Rome’s Santa Maria Maggiore church, where he was interred in a private ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cardinals marked his coffin with red wax seals before it was lowered into a tomb set inside an alcove, according to images released by the Vatican.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" POPE Francis, the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, was laid to rest at St. Mary Major Basilica in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13402,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions\/13402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}