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NZPA Vatican City The body of Pope Paul VI has gone on public display for the last time. When the body was on Thursday unexpectedly put on display again for the public, more than 100,000 mourners — prelates and pilgrims from around the world — filed past the remains on a catafalque in St Peter's Basilica. The body was attired in a red cape and shoes and white mitre. After three days of viewing; in Castelgandolfo. the hilltop community near Rome where the 80-year-old Pontiff died on Sunday, the body was
■ sealed in a coffin. But the Congregation of Cardinals I decided that it should oe ’ shown again to the public for another two days in the i Basilica. The cardinals, meeting ■ daily until the conclave to i elect the next Pope, decided I that the Requiem Mass today ■ should be in the open on the steps of St Peter’s Basilica and concelebrated by them — both precedents for a I Papal funeral — with more ■ithan 100,000 accorded a chance to be present during ;; the Mass. H After the mass, the Pope ■ will be buried under a slab I of marble in a crypt beneath ; the Basilica.
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