The Vatican says the stays of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI have been interred in a tomb within the grottoes underneath the primary ground of St. Peter’s Basilica. Benedict’s physique was put into an area left after the Vatican moved the stays of his predecessor, John Paul II, to the primary ground to replicate John Paul’s sainthood.
The transient announcement of the burial by the Vatican’s press workplace happened 90 minutes after the conclusion of Benedict’s funeral in St. Peter’s Sq. on Thursday.
Pope Francis presided over the service, which was attended by some 50,000 mourners.
Pictures launched by the Vatican confirmed the zinc coffin which was to include the cypress one exhibited to the devoted in the course of the funeral. Then the zinc coffin was positioned into one other picket one earlier than being put into the tomb.
