World leaders greet each other ahead of pope’s funeral mass

(26 Apr 2025)
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Vatican – 26 April 2025
1. Top shot St. Peter’s Square with crowd and guests arriving
2. U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump descending stairs and being escorted to their seats
3. Melania Trump shaking hands with gust
4. Ukrainain President Volodymyr Zelensky standing in first row
5. Various of people gathering around Trump
6. Nuns entering altar area
7. Britain’s Prince William arriving
8. Photographer taking photo from above Square
9. William greeting guests
10. Wide of altar area
11. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arriving
12. Various Meloni greeting guests
13. Cardinals walking to their seats
14. Argentinian President Javier Milei greeting guests
15. Milei walking to seat
16. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greeting Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and French President Emmanuel Macron
17. Macron, Von der Leyen and Lula talking
18. Macron greeting guest
19. Wide of officials and dignitaries
20. Top shot of procession beginning
21. Procession passing Zelensky and Trump
22. Wide of leaders in front row including Macron, Trump, Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Leticia
23. Pall-bearers carrying coffin
24. Leaders in front row watching coffin pass
25. Pall-bearers carrying coffin down stairs
26. Pall-bearers carrying coffin around altar
27. Pall-bearers putting down coffin
28. Coffin with book of Gospel on top
29. Top shot with coffin in front of altar and procession arriving
STORYLINE:
World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

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 have 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 Britain’s Prince William and the Spanish royal family, were 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 and Paolo Lucariello

Produced by Trisha Thomas

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