|
|
|
|
|
In this photo released from Italian State Police Polizia Moderna magazine staff, a view of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican and Roman sorroundings, during the funerals for Pope John Paul II, Friday April 8, 2005. The death of John Paul II has evoked a remarkable outpouring of affection from around the world and brought an estimated 4 million people to Rome in one of the largest religious gatherings in the West in modern times. (AP Photo/Polizia Moderna, HO) |
|
In this photo released from Italian State Police Polizia Moderna magazine staff, a view of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during the funerals for Pope John Paul II, Friday April 8, 2005. The death of John Paul II has evoked a remarkable outpouring of affection from around the world and brought an estimated 4 million people to Rome in one of the largest religious gatherings in the West in modern times. (AP Photo/Polizia Moderna, HO) |
|
Pope John Paul II's coffin is prepared to be lowered into the crypt below the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica following his funeral mass April 8, 2005. The poor and powerful joined in a final farewell to Pope John Paul on Friday at a momentous Vatican funeral watched by hundreds of millions of people across the world he travelled in his lifetime. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano/Pool |
|
Pope John Paul II's coffin is lowered into the crypt below the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica, following his funeral mass, April 8, 2005. The poor and powerful joined in a final farewell to Pope John Paul on Friday at a momentous Vatican funeral watched by hundreds of millions of people across the world he travelled in his lifetime. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano/POOL |
|
Pope John Paul II's coffin is prepared to be lowered into the crypt below the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica after his funeral Mass April 8, 2005. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano-Arturo Mari |
|
In this photo made available by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the wooden casket is seen inside the grave in the grottos beneath St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, April 8, 2005. The body late Pope John Paul II is placed inside three coffins encased within each other. After the funeral, the first wooden coffin is placed in a zinc coffin, which in turn is placed in a massive wooden casket. The zinc coffin and wooden casket are meant to slow down the decomposition process. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, ho) |
|
Pope John Paul II's coffin is carried away from St. Peter's Square after the funeral service on its way to the grottos beneath St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Friday, April 8, 2005. The grottos form a cramped underground cemetery beneath St. Peter's Basilica where pontiffs throughout the ages, royals and even an emperor have been laid to rest. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher) |
|
(From L) Vatican Camerlengo, Spanish Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo read prayers as other cardinals take part in a religious service for Pope John Paul II under the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica April 8, 2005. The poor and the powerful of the earth rubbed shoulders to say their last goodbye to Pope John Paul on Friday as the Vatican staged one of the most momentous funerals in history for the Polish Pontiff. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano-Arturo Mari |
|
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, center, prays before the coffin containing the body of Pope John Paul II, during the funeral mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday April 8, 2005. The death of John Paul II has evoked a remarkable outpouring of affection from around the world and brought an estimated 4 million people to Rome, in one of the largest gatherings in the West in modern times. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti) |
 |
A view of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday April 8, 2005 during the funerals of Pope John Paul II. Royalty, political power brokers and multitudes of the faithful will pay their last respects to the Pope at a funeral promising to be one of the largest Western religious gatherings of modern times. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) |