Faithful flock to St Peter's Basilica to pay last respects to Pope Francis

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The body of Pope Francis is being displayed inside Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, allowing faithful to pay their respects to the late pontiff.  Francis' body will lie in state in the basilica until April 25 evening with the funeral set for April 26.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:29We came on the parish pilgrimage for the jubilee year of hope.

00:46We arrived Monday and as we put our phones on, as we landed here in Rome,

00:52we heard the sad news that Pope Francis had died.

00:55He's like a member of the family isn't he?

00:58Somebody very close to our hearts, somebody who made the church very accessible to everybody

01:02and inclusive to everybody and like a family member for us.

01:08And we were meant to have an audience with him today and we will do,

01:12but not in the way that we expected.

01:14Pope Francis? We love him.

01:16Who was for you Pope Francis?

01:18Pope Francis was an ordinary beautiful man who lived his life as a follower of Jesus

01:23in his most sincere way, in the most beautiful way.

01:27And he taught us all how to be Christians and to be human.

01:31We were coming on this trip for the canonization of Carlos Sacuti.

01:36So our plans have changed and we feel that it's a God incident that we're here,

01:41but sad, but blessed to be here.

01:45I would say that he was a father of the church and he was a mother of sanctity for me, of holiness.

01:54Muchísimo, muchísimo. Tengo así la piel, el alma así en el borde.

01:59It's kind of just a mixture of emotions. I mean, I'm anxious a lot walking in.

02:05It's such a surreal place and it's very holy and seeing the body and just remembering everything that he stood for is very important.

02:11I really felt like I was feeling it in the heart and it seemed like I was losing a person closer to me.

02:18But it's the moment of being in prayer for him, for his wife.

02:22For his husband, for his wife, for his wife, for everything that he did for the church.

02:26This is the feeling of gratitude.

02:29It's the feeling of joy.

02:36It's the wonder God, for his wife, for everything that would fall.

02:40It's the only one who pleads, for his wife, for everything that he and her wife and her wife, for what to do.

02:43It's the feeling of which he had taken for.

02:48It's the feeling of joy.

02:52It's the feeling of joy.

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