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Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Pope Francis, at 88, was the second-oldest pontiff in modern history after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at the age of 93.

Pope Francis made history with his election in 2013 as the first Latin American as well as the first Jesuit ever elected.

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You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve. Pope Leo XIII, ...

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Pope Leo XIII wasn't the first pope to lose his own version of the famous ring. In the past 500 years, at least three other popes had been documented as losing theirs.