The Italian coffee king was buried inside a Bialetti pot

The 93-year-old Bialetti passed away on 11 February and according to La Stampa his children, Alessandra, Antonello and Alfonso, decided to put his ashes inside one of the pots that had made the family's name famous.

On Monday, a stove-top espresso maker filled with the cremated remains was taken to a church in his hometown of Casale Corte Cerro, Piedmont, where it was blessed by a priest during a funeral service, as can be seen in the video below. (MTI, Sárközy Júlia)