A mourner looks upon a portrait of the late Pope Francis at the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Cathedral, in Brazil, on April 21. The funeral for the 88-year-old pontiff will take place at the Vatican, on Saturday.
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Everything we know about the funeral of Pope Francis
Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and cardinals in the Vatican ready themselves for the millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff. Here’s what we know about the funeral of Pope Francis, who died of a heart attack and stroke on Easter Monday.
