NEW YORK (WABC) -- World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter's Square on Saturday.
Despite the presence of presidents and princes, prisoners and migrants ushered him into the basilica where he will be buried, reflecting his priorities as pope, as hundreds of thousands have flocked to the funeral Mass.
U.S. President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, the U.N. chief and European Union leaders, as well as Prince William and the Spanish royal family, were in attendance.
Francis is breaking with recent tradition to be buried in the St. Mary Major Basilica in a simple underground tomb with just his name: Franciscus.
Argentinian-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the Catholic Church's 266th pope and the first ever from Latin America. He took the name Francis after the well-known St. Francis of Assisi, who ministered to the poor.
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 after suffering a stroke, setting off mourning in the Catholic world and days of ritual at the Vatican.
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."
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a short video that he brought "your hearts" with him to the Vatican.
"I just want you to know that I bring your sentiments, and your intentions and your hearts with me at the funeral this morning," Dolan said in the video, which he said was filmed in Vatican City just prior to Saturday's funeral.
Valerie Herrera, who has struggled with the auto-immune disease vitiligo, had the chance of a lifetime when she sang to Pope Francis almost 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."
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.
