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Video shows Pope Francis' tomb inside Rome's St. Mary Major's Basilica where he was laid to rest
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The Vatican released footage on Sunday showing Pope Francis' tomb inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, where he was buried in a private ceremony the day before.
The pope's unadorned tomb is marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — to reflect a life of simplicity.
Francis, who was also the first Jesuit pope, died Easter Monday at age 88 after suffering a stroke while recovering from pneumonia.
Even before he became pope, Francis had a particular affection for St. Mary Major, home to a Byzantine-style icon of the Madonna, the Salus Populi Romani. He would pray before the icon before and after each of his foreign trips as pope.
The popemobile that brought his coffin there was made for one of those trips: Francis’ 2016 visit to Mexico, and was modified to carry a coffin.
The choice of the basilica was also symbolically significant given its ties to Francis’ Jesuit religious order. St. Ignatius Loyola, who founded the Jesuits, celebrated his first Mass in the basilica on Christmas Day in 1538.
The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this was the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was entombed in another Roman basilica in 1924.