50,000 people pass Pope Francis’s casket as Catholics mourns loss of the ‘people’s pope’ (Video)

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peters Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, closing the basilica for just an hour Thursday morning for cleaning. Read more: https://bit.ly/4cRY3jo #popefrancis #funeral #vatican Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home