Benedict buried in Vatican grottoes

A zinc casket surrounding his coffin is sealed.

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While Benedict XVI’s Requiem Mass, celebrated by Pope Francis, was public, after his coffin was taken into St. Peter’s Basilica, the cameras stopped.

The rite calls for the coffin to be surrounded by ribbons printed with the seals of the Apostolic Chamber, the Papal Household, the Office for Liturgical Celebrations and the Vatican Chapter.

His cypress coffin was then placed in a zinc coffin, which is sealed, and then in an oak covering, before being placed in the tomb that housed the remains of John Paul II from 2005 to 2011.

A few hours after the burial, the Vatican released a handful of images.

Some images of the burial of the body of the Pope Emeritus — Cardinal Re, who celebrated the funeral, leads the Rite of Burial

Benedict XVI coffin — The casket carried between the cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica, after the Requiem.

AFP

officials-preparing-the-casket-of-the-late-Pope-Emeritus-Benedict-XVI-at-St.-Peters-Basilica-in-The-Vatican — Archbishop Ganswein and Monsignor Diego Giovanni Ravelli prepare Benedict XVI’s body in his coffin in a private liturgy on the evening of January 4.

Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP

Vatican News shared a video:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=700523011510435

Picture of the late former Pope Benedict XVI.

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