Francis died on April 26 at 88 years old.
Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be buried Saturday at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major after dying one week ago at 88 years old.
Francis, who took his name after Saint Francis of Assisi, was known for his outreach to the poor and those in poverty and that will be reflected in his minimalist burial at Saint Mary Major. He is the first pope to be buried outside the Vatican in over a century and the first to be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore in more than 300 years.
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The chapel next to where Francis was being buried is home to a Byzantine-style icon of the Madonna, the Salus Populi Romani.
Francis was particularly devoted, and reportedly would pray before the icon before and after each of his foreign trips during his 12 years as pope.
Valerie Herrera, who has struggled with the auto-immune disease vitiligo, had the chance of a lifetime when she sang to Pope Francis over a decade ago.
Herrera was 17 when she shared her story with Pope Francis about struggling with the rare skin disorder and turning to music to cope with bullying. In a touching moment during a U.S. virtual town hall with ABC News' David Muir in 2015, the pope asked her to sing for him.
As cheers filled the room at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, Herrera sang a song of her choice, moving many in the audience. The pope thanked her with his characteristic warm smile.
Now 26 and working as a nurse outside Chicago, Herrera reflects on that transformative moment.
"When I think about Pope Francis, I remember his warming and welcoming smile when he asked me to sing for him," Herrera told ABC News. "That's the face I will always remember."
Herrera detailed how the moment with the pontiff inspired her in her career and personal life, saying it "taught me to just to be more of a woman of faith that is here to serve others, that is here to provide care as a nurse."
"I have the responsibility to care for those that are under my care. I have the responsibility to provide and give everything that I have in order to ensure that people are healing, people are getting better, and to provide the love and compassion that family members and patients really need in their time of weakness when they're sick," Herrera said.
Herrera also spoke with ABC News Live as Pope Francis' coffin was being taken out of St. Peter's Basilica to the Basilica of St. Mary Major on Saturday morning.
She thanked the pope again for speaking with her.
"I couldn't imagine that it's already been about 10 years," Herrera said. "To this day, I still can't really believe what had happened."
Herrera said Pope Francis "really did touch my heart, touch my family."
KABC's David Ono shares the crowd's reaction to seeing the Popemobile carrying Pope Francis' casket as it makes its way from St. Peter's Basilica to its final resting place of Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major.
"I'm watching people be emotional and wipe their eyes ... You know, it is that very human thing. You want to celebrate his life but you mourn his loss."
Tens of thousands of people have lined the four-mile route between St. Peter's Basilica and Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where Pope Francis will be laid to rest this afternoon.
People could be seen crying and applauding the vehicle carrying his coffin as thousands took the final opportunity to thank Pope Francis.
The procession is taking the pope's body past a number of Rome's historical landmarks, including the Roman Forum and the Colosseum.
When Pope Francis arrives at Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major, it will be the last time he will be seen in public before he is buried, and the basilica reopens to visitors again on Sunday.
