Final Farewell: Pope Francis’ coffin sealed ahead of funeral

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Pope Francis’ coffin was sealed on Friday (April 26) evening in a private ceremony known in the Church as the Rite of the Closing of the Coffin of the Roman Pontiff, after thousands of faithful paid their final respects.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3mbfbf9n  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Pope Francis' coffin was sealed on Friday evening after thousands of faithful paid their final

00:07respects. The sealing ceremony, known in the Church as the Rite of the Closing of the Coffin

00:13of the Roman Pontiff, was conducted by Archbishop Diego Ravelli and Cardinal Kevin Farrell at St.

00:19Peter's Basilica. Earlier in the day, more than 100,000 mourners had filed into the Basilica

00:26to view the open coffin during the final hours of public visitation before the funeral on Saturday.

00:33Shortly after 7 p.m. local time, the Vatican ended its nearly continuous TV broadcast of

00:38the visits ahead of the private sealing ceremony.

00:56Please remember this morning.

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