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Vatican says that about 250,000 bereaved by the Basilica of St. Peter were filed during the three-day lying in the state.

Tens of thousands of people filed In the Basilica of St. Peter to pay final respect in the Francis Pope on his last day lying in the state before his funeral.

The basilica was opened most of Thursday evening on Friday morning, she closed her doors for only three hours overnight.

Long lines acquired around Svetog Peter and the surrounding roads, before Friday Friday on Friday, Friday, on Friday, took the mid-column that led to the central altar on Friday, where he was on Friday Friday.

People slowly pressed forward, a few hours of waiting, to have a few minutes from the inside to pay tribute to Francis.

The body of the 88-year-old Pope, who died in his rooms on Monday in the Vatican Marta March pension, after the patient on Wednesday was brought in the ceremonial procession.

Since then, about 250,000 people from all over the world, he forgave from Pontif, said Vatican.

“It’s a very strong feeling (to be here),” Patricio Hurtriot, a visitor who, like Pope, from Argentina, told Reuters’ news agency. “Goodbye was very sad, but I thank God I could see him.

“He is the only pope we had from South America, the Pope who had many good intentions for the Catholic Church,” Castriot said. “He cleaned up (a lot) bad, maybe he’s not all but he tried.”

FrancisIn 2013, the Pope became, was the first Pontiff from the western hemisphere and was known for the charming and even humorous, behavior.

His 12-year paption was sometimes turbulent, and Francis sought overhaul of a divided institution, but borrilling with traditionalists who opposed many changes.

“Humanized the church, without designing,” said Cardinal Francois-Xavier Bustillo, who leads the church in the French island of Corsica.

Hundreds of disappointed people were facing when the authorities closed the square hours of St. Peter before the end of the viewing period. Public views are completed at 7 pm (17:00 GMT) on Friday, before the official sealing rite of late parrot papins.

Reporting from the Vatican, Al Jazeere walking Abdel-Hamid said that the cardinals were supposed to help close the coffin in the private ceremony.

“There will be twelve coins inside the coffin, and each is a year of Pope Francis Papacy. There will also be a kind of metal pipe with paper inside, describing his papacy and heritage,” she said.

The Vatican He said that at least 130 foreign delegations confirmed their presence of Pope Francis Federation on Saturday, including about 50 heads of state and 10 ruling monarchs.

Among the foreign leaders, the President of the United States Donald Trump goes to the funeral Rome, the unexpectedly first foreign journey of his second term in which he will face leaders, including Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

French President Emmanuel Macron, one leader who has managed to form a trumpet, and the outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will be at the funeral, as every European unions, Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa.

They will also attend the Brazilian President Luiz inacio Lula da Silva, leftist veterans whose divisant Jair Bolsononarono was ideologically soulmates Trump.