Even Francis’s predecessor Benedict XVI was buried in three coffins of cypress, lead, and elm loaded with sacks of papal coins for each of the years of his reign and displayed on a raised cataf ...

Unlike his predecessors, who were buried in three nested coffins — one made of cypress, one made of lead, and one made of elm — the famously humble Francis chose to be buried in a simple ...

The new rites ask that the late pontiff is placed directly into a simple, open wooden coffin lined with zinc, where previous traditions saw a pope entombed in three different coffins - one of ...

He will also be buried in just one simple wooden coffin, instead of the traditional three coffins which are usually used for pontiffs. Born in Crosby near Liverpool, Cardinal Vincent Nichols hoped ...

As part of Francis’ push to simplify the papal funeral rites, his body is in a single wooden coffin, rather than having three nested coffins of cypress, lead and oak as was tradition.

The fact that Francis will have only a single coffin represents a departure from previous tradition — prior to reforms put in place by Pope Francis in 2024, popes had three nested coffins ...

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In 2024, he changed the longstanding burial rules that required three coffins – two made of cypress and oak, and one of lead, one inside the other. Under the new rules, popes can now be buried ...

And while many of his predecessors are buried in three different coffins, he decided, before his death, to be placed in a zinc-lined wood coffin. According to church doctrine, the pope is to be ...

In his new movie “The Shrouds” (in theaters nationwide April 25), the Canadian filmmaker imagines a near future where high-definition cameras are placed in luxury coffins, allowing people to ...

This included reducing the number of coffins that the pope's body is placed into and allowing the pope to be laid to rest in a place other than St. Peter's Basilica. The Mass will follow a ...

Instead of three coffins, Francis will have one wooden casket lined with zinc. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, will preside at the Rite of Sealing of the Coffin for ...