Francis's company at St. Mary Major captures contrasts, contradictions of papal history

Francis will become the sixth pontiff to be interred in the basilica, joining Pius V, Sixtus V, Paul V, Clement IX and Clement XIII, all of whom reigned between the late 16th and late 18th centuries.

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