At 20.00 in the Vatican Basilica there was a rite of closing the casket. After prayer and blessing the body into the papal casket, a bag with coins struck during the pontificate of Francis and a signed notarial deed was put in a papal casket.
The rite was presided over by the Church managing during the vacancy in the Holy See Cardinal Kevin Farrell. The dean of the Cardinal College of Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the Basilica Archprow's Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, current secretary of state of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, vicar of the Roman diocese of Cardinal Baldo Reina and papal almsman Cardinal Konrad Krajewski.
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When is the funeral of Pope Francis?
Holy Mass The funeral will start on Saturday at 10 at Saint Peter Square in the Vatican. After her, the casket with the pope's body will be taken to the Basilica of the Larger Mother, where, according to his will, Francis will be buried.
Franciszek died on Monday at 7.35 at the age of 88. The cause of death was stroke, coma and irreversible cardiological collapse
