For a second time at the funeral of Pope Francis, a spontaneous applause broke out from the crowd. This time it was for Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine.
A crowd outside St Peter’s, which the Vatican later said numbered 200,000, applauded as large screens showed Zelensky take his seat.
The first applause had erupted when the late pontiff’s wooden coffin was carried from the altar of the 16th-century St Peter’s Basilica, where it had lain in state for three days, by 14 white-gloved pallbearers and into the square for the open-air ceremony.
