Francis, who shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy, asked to be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore - rather than ...

The first pictures of Pope Francis' tomb have been released following his ... and Francis is the first to do so since Pope Leo XIII in 1903. After the service, a long queue of mourners formed ...

Pope Francis is the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican. He broke with tradition, ...

He asked that his tomb be placed in the aisle next to the ... was carried in procession through Rome was in 1903, when Pope Leo XIII’s coffin was taken from St. Peter’s Square to the Basilica ...

According to Vatican estimates, some 250,000 people flocked to the funeral Mass at the Vatican and 150,000 more lined the ...

The last pope to be buried outside the Vatican was Pope Leo XIII who was buried in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in 1903. A photo of the Pope Francis' tomb released by the Vatican April 24 showed ...

It is rare for a pope to be buried outside the Vatican, and Francis is the first to do so since Pope Leo XIII in 1903.

Four children deposited the roses at the foot of the altar before cardinals performed the burial rite at his tomb in a nearby ... outside the Vatican since Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and ...