The "King of the Gypsies" is being laid to rest in a ceremony
fitting his status.  Florin Cioaba was a driven activist who
championed education for impoverished Roma children after seeing
his own 12-year-old daughter storm out of a church to avoid an
arranged marriage. Thousands turned out for his funeral Friday
and stonemasons have been carving his tomb in black marble for
the last week.  Cioaba died Sunday of a heart attack at age 58.
He will be succeeded as leader of Europe's largest Roma
community by one of his sons.  The family has led Romania's Roma
since the 19th century. Cioaba took over the mantle from his
father Ion Cioaba, who was deported during the Holocaust to the
Soviet Union.  Cioaba, a Pentecostal pastor, made international
headlines in 2003 when his daughter refused to get married.
Criticism from a European Union envoy led the leader to
encourage Roma to marry later.