Francisco is buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maior, in Rome, outside the walls of the Vatican

It is the first time in decades that a leader of the Catholic Church is buried outside the Vatican City. The deceased Pope, devotee of the Virgin Mary, chose the largest Marian temple in the city of Rome to be buried. The Santa Maria Maior Basilica welcomes a tomb produced in marble in the Liguria region, northwest of Italy, from where the grandparents of Jorge Mario Bergoglio were. On top, a reproduction of the cross that Pope Francis used and, in the tomb, only the name of the Pope in Latin, Franciscus. Before entering Santa Maria Maior Basilica, the Pope’s procession was received by a set of needy people, in a last message of Francis, whose papacy was marked by the approach to the most needy.