Pope Francis honored as Paris' Notre-Dame bells ring out 88 times

Pope Francis honored as Paris’ Notre-Dame bells ring out 88 times

/ 05:24 PM April 21, 2025

Pope Francis honored as Paris' Notre-Dame bells ring out 88 times

Nuns kneel as they pray during a Good Friday Meditation gathering in front of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, in Paris on April 18, 2025. FILE PHOTO/Agence France-Presse

PARIS — The bells at Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral rang out 88 times on Monday in honor of Pope Francis who died aged 88, an AFP reporter at the scene said.

The “88 rings for 88 years of life” were to be followed by a full ringing of the cathedral’s bells before a noon mass in Francis’s honor, followed by another in early evening, according to the Notre-Dame press office.

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