According to Efe police sources from the Italian capital, 13 thousand people from the congregates had already managed to enter the temple, while the rest waited for their turn in long lines.
Inside Santa María la Mayor, Pope Francis on his grave, of stone and tenuously illuminated, where he received a burial at a private ceremony on Saturday after his mass funeral ceremony rests from the eve.
Around 200 people lined up to enter an hour before the church opened its doorsEFE found in the place.
The Argentine pontiff was fired on Saturday with a solemn funeral in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano and, then, his coffin crossed the most monumental Rome in a funeral courtship until he reached Santa María la Mayor.
This ancient temple, one of the four papal of the city and whose origins are attributed to a millenary miracle, He was chosen by Francisco to build his grave because he guarded a virgin of which he was very devout, The ‘Salus Populi Romani’.
The burial is on the side of the chapel that houses it and consists, as requested in its will, in a simple tombstone of liguria stone, the land of its Italian ancestors, with a single inscription: ‘Franciscus’, in Latin. EFE