Following a procession via a Ram 1500-based popemobile, Francis was buried in the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome “in the burial niche in the side aisle between the Pauline Chapel (Chapel of the Salus Populi Romani) and the Sforza Chapel of the Basilica”. He had a “great devotion” to the Salus Populi Romani icon kept in that church.
He was the eighth pope to be buried in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, the first papal internment there since Clement IX in 1669, and the first pope interred outside Vatican City since Pope Leo XIII in 1903. .
Francis’s name on the simple marble grave marker was marred by irregular kerning (spacing) of the letters; the misalignment was observed by typographers and design experts
