Cardinals gathered at Vatican choose Saturday for Pope Francis' funeral
Pope Francis' final will states that he will be buried at St. Mary Major basilica, outside the Vatican and home to his favourite icon of the Virgin Mary.
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Pope Francis' final will states that he will be buried at St. Mary Major basilica, outside the Vatican and home to his favourite icon of the Virgin Mary.
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00:00Cardinals gathered in the Vatican on Tuesday to arrange Pope Francis' funeral and plan the conclave.
00:08The Vatican has announced that the Pope's body will be transferred to St. Peter's Basilica on Wednesday,
00:14where he will lie in state for people to come and pay their respects.
00:18The Pope's funeral will be held on Saturday and he will be buried at the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.
00:25The church is home to Pope Francis' favorite icon of the Virgin Mary, where he would pray after every foreign trip.
00:33On Monday evening, the Camerlengo Cardinal Kevin Farrell presided over the ritual to confirm the Pope's death,
00:40blessing him with a prayer and holy water.
00:43Pope Francis chose to be buried in a simplified wooden coffin with a zinc coffin inside,
00:49instead of the traditional three wooden coffins.
00:53Once in St. Peter's, his coffin will not be put on an elevated bier,
00:57but will just be placed simply facing the pews, with a Pasqual candle nearby.
01:03will just be placed in plats.
01:05It will also be placed at the same time as the King of the King for many years.
01:09And the past few weeks, he'll be relocated to the sacred disponible for those actions and for the court.
01:11It is completely lit to the surface of the church's death.
01:13The last two weeks, it will be placed in the zoo and the same time as the pioneers new.
01:15The last two weeks, the moment was the last two weeks of the massacre,
01:17of the death, of the death.
01:18Can he accept it, at the end?
01:18The last two weeks...
01:21But it was in the second weeks...
01:23The last three weeks, and the Pacific has been the same.