The Vatican has just announced that Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday at 10am local time.
The Vatican also confirmed that Pope Francis’s coffin will be transferred to St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning, where it will stay until the funeral.
It will be taken there from the chapel of the Santa Marta residence.
Pope Francis, the head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, died at his home in the Vatican on Monday aged 88 after suffering a stroke.
According to a short statement, the funeral liturgy in St Peter’s square will be presided by the Dean of the College of Cardinals Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
Following the liturgy, the coffin will be taken into St Peter’s Basilica, and then to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for burial, as requested by Francis.”
