BBC OS Conversations: Remembering the life of Pope Francis

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  Hello, I'm Mark Lowen.

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  This time in BBC OS Conversations,

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  we're bringing people together to remember the life of Pope Francis.

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  Well, as you can probably hear, I'm not in our usual London studio, but in Rome,

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  just a few metres from the Vatican, towered over by St Peter's Basilica,

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  with its grand dome and the elegant colonnades lining the square.

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  This is a place I'm very familiar with.

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  Until recently, I was the BBC's Rome correspondent.

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  I returned this week to cover events following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday,

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  and since then I've spent most of my time here.

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  time around St Peter's Square, watching the crowds of mourners.

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  We'll be sharing some of the conversations I've had with people about the Pope and what he meant to them.

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  We'll hear from Argentina, where Jorge Maria Bergoglio grew up,

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  and from people who met him as Pope Francis.

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  Despite rising through the Catholic hierarchy to head up the Church,

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