It is one of the most poignant and iconic moments in papal funerals: the simple yet profound image of the breeze blowing the pages of the Book of the Gospels resting on top of the pope's coffin.

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A page of the book of the gospels reading "In the Passion and death of the Lord" is seen on the coffin of late Pope Francis at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, April 26, 2025.

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Emergence of the Four Gospel Canon ... [also] wanted to say if we know a book was supposedly written by an Apostle or by a follower of an Apostle, this gave it some authenticity.

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A good example of this is Serapion of Antioch (a bishop from 190 to 211), who let some of his flock read the Gospel of Peter in church—until he read the book himself.

The books themselves are written in Ge'ez, an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language and consist of three manuscripts in two volumes. Both contain the four gospels and one of the volumes has added ...

A page of the book of the gospels reading "In the Passion and death of the Lord" is seen on the coffin of late Pope Francis at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, April 26, 2025.