MILLIONS PAY LAST TRIBUTE TO POPE Unusual scenes of the late Pope Pius Twelfth in the hours following his death at Castel Gandolfo. Following the procession to Rome, and through the Eternal City amid a glory of pomp and ceremony to be seen in the modern world only on the death of the Pontiff, Pius Twelfth lies in state in the great Basilica of St. Peter's as more than two million file by to pay last tribute to the 'defender of the people', the "Pope of Peace."