Tens of thousands gather to see Pope Francis bury his predecessor
“This is a very important moment, especially as we are seeing one pope bury another,” said Vanessa Rivas, from Spain and in Rome on holiday with her husband, George. “We were here and wanted to come, also to try to understand how the Catholic church might develop after this.”
“Benedict was a very important pope who did many things, the fruit of which we might not realise for several years,” she said. “He always took on his tasks with humility, even when he realised he had to resign because he didn’t have the strength to continue as pope.” During his weekly papal audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis hailed his immediate predecessor, a conservative thinker, as “a great master of catechesis”.
He will be given a funeral similar to that of a reigning pontiff and will be laid to rest in the tomb where Pope John Paul II was buried before beatification.
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