Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome, a day after his funeral service that was attended by world leaders and royalty.

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by the pope. In his will, he wrote that he had visited the Marian basilica at the beginning and the end of every apostolic trip he took during his 12-year papacy.

By Giselda Vagnoni and Cristiano Corvino ROME (Reuters) -Thousands of people filed past the tomb of Pope Francis from early on Sunday morning, packing the Roman basilica where he had chosen to be buried in a break from tradition.