The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of “simplicity and essential things.” The requiem Mass was a solemn spectacle of an ancient faith, an elaborate, multilingual ceremony.
wapo.stAmong the meek and the mighty, Catholics bury their ‘people’s pope’The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of “simplicity and essential things.”