Vatican City, May 7 (AP) Catholic cardinals are filing into the Sistine Chapel for the start of the conclave to elect a new pope to follow Pope Francis.

As they processed into the chapel adorned with Michelangelo's “The Last Judgement,” the 133 cardinals chanted the meditative “Litany of the Saints”. A line of Swiss Guards stood at attention.

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The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. (AP)

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