Outside the Basilica of St. Mary Major, a smaller place where Pope Francis will be buried, a banner “Thank you, Francis” in Italian.
Although the funeral in the Vatican was treated by heads of state and monarchs, there was a great symbolism in the fact that, according to the last wishes of the Pope, his coffin was received on the steps of St. Mary Major by the poor and discarded, who remained at the forefront of Francis’s ministries to his death.
