The Vatican has unveiled the first photo and video of Pope Francis lying in repose, adorned in red liturgical vestments. The 88-year-old pontiff passed away due to a cerebral stroke, confirmed by Dr. Andrea Arcangeli. In a departure from tradition, Pope Francis expressed his wish for a simple burial at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, deviating from the customary entombment at St. Peter’s Basilica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Vatican has unveiled the first photo and video of Pope Francis lying in repose, adorned in red liturgical vestments. The 88-year-old pontiff passed away due to a cerebral stroke, confirmed by Dr. Andrea Arcangeli. In a departure from tradition, Pope Francis expressed his wish for a simple burial at the Papal Basilica of St. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":103918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120510242imgsize-1307394.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}