Pope Francis has arrived on a wheelchair to perform the funeral service for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in front of thousands of mourners gathered in St Peter's Square.Devotees started to pour in at 3am GMT, five and a half hours before the two-hour service for the German theologian who made history by retiring, in the first requiem Mass for a dead pope presided over by a living one in 200 years.As 12 pallbearers carried in the coffin to the sound of applause and tolling bolls, the faithful read the rosary in Latin and hymns were sung, with an estimated 100,000 expected for the 'sober and sombre' ceremony.
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