Death and Burial
Fr. Pedro Arrupe of the Society of Jesus, died on February 5, 1991 in his 84th year. His funeral was held in the Church of the Gesu, Rome and was attended by crowds that filled the piazza outside the church. Also in attendance were 10 cardinals, 20 bishops, Giulio Andreotti the Prime Minister of Italy as well as other religious and civil dignitaries. His body, first interred in the Jesuit Mausoleum at Campo Verano, was brought back into the Church of the Gesu where it lies in a side chapel.
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