About 300 people attended Pell's funeral Mass in a secondary chapel of St Peter's Basilica. In keeping with tradition for deceased cardinals, the Mass was said by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Italian Giovanni Battista Re.
But Pell was given a standard solemn Vatican funeral for a cardinal. Re began the service by reading out the full text of a message the pope issued on Wednesday praising Pell for persevering in trying times. The day after Pell died, Magister disclosed on his widely read blog Settimo Cielo that it was Pell who wrote the memo and gave him permission to publish it under the pseudonym"Demos" - Greek for populace. It included what the author said should be the qualities of the next pope.
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