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As Rome gears up for spectacle of Pope Francis’s funeral, mourners hail his humility

Sadness at pope’s passing is tinged with giddiness at holding world’s gaze with a pageant for the ages

Beneath the basilica’s soaring Renaissance dome, the body in the coffin looked unexpectedly small…