Funeral Pictures
 of Pope John Paul II
 

VATICAN CITY Apr 8, 2005 — With presidents and kings looking on, hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square sang, applauded and chanted for the church to declare John Paul II a saint as the pope was laid to rest Friday in an unprecedented gathering of the mighty and the meek.    
 

The crowds for the funeral Mass — estimated at 4-5 million — were giddy and tearful, joyous and reverent. 

Pope John Paul II's coffin is taken to the grottos beneath St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, standing at the center of the altar, celebrates the funeral service for Pope John Paul II, at St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican, April 8, 2005.
In his homily, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger described the pope as "a priest to the very end" and traced the extraordinary arc of the pope's life from his days as a factory worker in Poland to leader of the world's more than 1 billion Catholics.
 

Dignitaries including President and Mrs. Bush, French President Jacques Chirac, Queen Sofia and King Juan Carlos of Spain, and Queen Margarethe of Denmark at the pope's funeral. 

Tributes to Pope John Paul II: Dignitaries By Country
 

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