Source: International Business Times
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella and his daughter Laura pay respects in front of the coffin of the late Pope Francis in the Chapel of Santa Marta in The Vatican AFP In the chapel of the Vatican's Santa Marta residence, where Pope Francis lived and died, a nun prayed Tuesday with tears in her eyes before the pontiff's wooden coffin. Swiss guards in their brightly coloured uniforms stood either side of the casket laid out for Vatican staff, officials and dignitaries to pay their respects before a public lying-in-state starts Wednesday. The pontiff, who died on Monday aged 88, was dressed in his papal vestments -- a red chasuble, white mitre and black shoes, with rosary beads laced around his fingers.
