Almost 10,000 people follow funeral service from giant screens in front Myeongdong Cathedral, too small to contain them all. Top government officials attend the service. He lived till the last moment, following God and respecting human life, fully.
Today the ceremony of dressing the body will take place. The funeral is scheduled for 10 am tomorrow. Every day about 100,000 people, Catholics and non-Catholics, are filing by the cardinal’s casket in Myeongdong Catholic Cathedral to say their final farewell. Daejong bishop reminisces.
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