Pilgrims and the powerful come together for Pope Francis’s funeral

Pope Francis has been eulogised as ‘a pope among the people, with an open heart towards everyone’ during a funeral mass that brought together an array of mourners, from pilgrims and refugees to powerful world leaders and royalty. The 90-minute mass was celebrated by 220 cardinals, 750 bishops and more than 4,000 priests. At least 400,000 people turned out for the Pope’s funeral at the Vatican and lined Rome’s streets, Italy’s interior minister said. Francis is the first pontiff in more than a century not to be buried with great fanfare in the grottoes beneath St Peter’s Basilica