Thousands prepare to bid Pope farewell
Mourners streamed past the crimson-robed body of John Paul II for a second day today, with thousands waiting in line to say a personal farewell to the pontiff, as the cardinals who will elect his successor prepared for another round of preparatory meetings to arrange for the conclave.
As dawn broke, buses unloaded huge groups of students, pilgrims and clergy, who joined a line stretching for miles along the wide avenue leading up to St Peter’s Square and through the streets of the neighbourhood that surrounds the Vatican.
