Julia Malyszko

3 weeks ago | batimes.com.ar | Barnaby Chesterman |Julia Malyszko

Mourners queued in their thousands for hours on Thursday to catch a last glimpse of Pope Francis's body on the second day of public tributes as Italian authorities stepped up security arrangements ahead of his weekend funeral. Some 61,000 people had filed past the late Catholic leader's red-lined wooden coffin in the first 26 hours since Francis was laid in state at St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday morning, the Vatican said.