Preparations are underway at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to arrange the tomb where Pope Francis will be buried on Saturday after the funeral. According to a photograph in possession of

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the centre of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes. The last pontiff to be buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII in 1903,

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