Photo: Pope Francis' last trip

By air and boat, on foot and in a popular electric, Pope Francis traveled year after the year of papacy, reaching dozens of countries on five continents.

His first official trip outside Rome was in 2013 in Lampedusa, a small Mediterranean island that had become a door to migrants. Not long after, he flew to the mountains of Bolivia and riding the streets of Philadelphia and New York on the streets. He visited Mosul, an Iraqi city ruined by the war, met mad in South Sudan, the new country in the world, and crossed Asia and the Pacific, with stops in Mongolia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

As his health became fragile in the months preceding his death, his movements have become increasingly limited to an ever smaller circle, with his humble residence in a Vatican pension in the center. After his death on April 21, the Vatican officials moved to prepare his body for one last trip: a funeral procession to the church where he will be buried as the 266th Pope.

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