(26 Apr 2025)
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Vatican City – 26 April 2025
1. Various of Pope Francis’ funeral
2. Nuns in St. Peter’s Square
3. Wide of St. Peter’s Square
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Ibrahima Lo, Mediterranea Saving Humans:
“Pope Francis was a brother to me, a fellow activist, someone who fought with us. Today we have lost a father.”
5. Various of faithful showing Vatican daily newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” headline reading in Italian “The Lord has called the Holy Father Francis to himself”
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Ibrahima Lo, Mediterranea Saving Humans:
“Pope Francis has made it clear to all those who will come tomorrow that there is a way forward and the way forward is humanity. Humanity means helping those in need and being close to the weak, the invisible and giving voice to the voiceless like Pope Francis did with migrants.”
7. Various of faithful leaving St. Peter’s Square
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Don Mattia Ferrari, chaplain for Mediterranea Saving Humans:
“As the migrants themselves say, he helped the world to recognise them as persons, and as brothers and sisters. This is a contribution that Pope Francis has made not only to the Church but to human history, and it is enormous.”
9. Various of faithful leaving
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Don Mattia Ferrari, chaplain for Mediterranea Saving Humans:
“I think the beautiful thing that there was at this funeral was that there were the powerful, but alongside the powerful there were also those who in the world are the last, the discarded, because there was Refugees Lybia, there was Mediterranea Saving Humans so everyone was there. This is perfectly in line with Pope Francis’ vision, everyone, all brothers and sisters. There are the powerful but there are also the last, together.”
11. Various of St. Peter’s Square
STORYLINE:
Among the hundreds of thousands of faithful present at Pope Francis’ funeral on Saturday were also a delegation from Mediterranea Saving Humans, an Italian association that protects refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea, for whom Pope Francis had often used words of proximity.
"Pope Francis was a brother to me, a fellow activist, someone who fought with us. Today we have lost a father,” said Ibrahima Lo, a member of the NGO.
The organisation’s chaplain at sea, Don Mattia Ferrari, said the make-up of attendees perfectly encapsulated Pope Francis’ vision for the world.
“There were the powerful, but alongside… there were also those who in the world are the last, the discarded" he said.
Despite the presence of presidents and princes, prisoners and migrants ushered him into the basilica where he will be buried, reflecting his priorities as pope, as hundreds of thousands flocked to the funeral Mass.
U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, the U.N. chief and European Union leaders, as well as Prince William and the Spanish royal family, were among those in attendance.
Francis is breaking with recent tradition and will be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica, where a simple underground tomb awaits him with just his name: Franciscus.
AP video by Silvia Stellacci
AP production by Francesco Sportelli
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