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The funeral of Pope Francis will be simpler than the funeral of the previous popes, after the instructions he set himself.

But as a head of state and leader of more than a billion Catholics worldwide, it will remain a scene of the ceremony and tradition.

His death attracted famous personalities, politicians and thousands of followers to the Vatican city to pay their respect.

The head of bishops and bishops began to gather At 08:30 local time (07:30 BST) in Constantine’s pavilion, a corridor adjacent to Saint Peter.

At the same time, Catholic priests will gather in Saint Peter’s Square.

After half an hour, At 09:00 local timeThe patriarchs will be gathered from the Orthodox Church and Crozine in the Church of St. Sebastian, inside Bazilica, where the remains of Pope John Paul II lie.

They will walk in a funeral procession that accompanies the coffin of the Pope, who spent the past four days in the center of the Church of St. Peter.

The funeral begins At 10:00 When the coffin is placed in the square in front of the Church of St. Peter. The service will be led by the Dean of the College of Cardinal, Cardinal Giovanni Batista.

You can follow up on the entire service arrangement here.

The guests and young women will sit near Bazilica and Tabot, with thousands of other clerics and members of the public in the Saint Peter and around the Square, similar to the funeral of Pope Benedict XVII shown below.

The service will end with Pope Francis and the final bench – a final prayer, where the Pope will be officially assigned to God.

This represents the beginning of the mourning period for nine days called Novandales with a mass every day in his memory.

Officials expect at least 250,000 public members to attend the funeral, and there are about 170 heads of state or government in the list of guests.

Prince William King Charles III will be a precedent in 2005 when Prince Wales attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II.

The heads of state and the smell of the other royal family They confirmed their presenceIncluding US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, the King of Spain Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, and Brazilian President Luise Inosio Lula da Silva.

There will also be hundreds of clergy members, with each group of bases of the service specified for the service.

For bishops and bishops, the liturgical clothes for a funeral include AlpineA white jacket carried by a traditional wire called collarthe friendlyA short acy cloth to cover the neck and red ChanceOfficial Cape, in honor of the Pope. Finally, they do not wear simple white white or silky metropolis on their heads.

Cardinals wear similar clothes, but can be distinguished by the most decorated MITRES PATREN, which looks generous and not white.

The priests wear simpler clothes and a long scarf on their jacket called red theft.

The leaders of the Orthodox churches, or patriarchs, will wear their own style of MITRES, a head called Jackets And a decorative cloth is called UmoforionIn colors according to their specific traditions.

After service, Francis’s body – which wears a red, Damascene and the golden papal meter – will be transferred from St. Peter to the Santa Maria Magior Church in Rome for its burial.

The road crosses the Tiaper River and passes the colosium.

It will become the first Pope since Liu thirteenth, who died in 1903, to be buried outside the Vatican.

Traditionally, the remains of the Pope were attached to the day before the funeral in three intertwined coffins, made of cypress, lead and oak.

The cypress coffin symbolizes humility and deaths. External oak coffin, a sign of “dignity, strength” and pioneering coffin, welded to preserve the remains and prevent absurdity.

Last year, Pope Francis asked to be buried in a simpler wooden coffin with the interior of zinc.

This is the coffin that will appear in the funeral ceremony.

According to Monginor Diego Ravili, the Vatican master for the liturgical celebrations, the demand stressed “more than that that the Romanian funeral is a shepherd and a student of Christ and not from a strong man in this world.”

Pope Francis, the Jesuit – was a religious Catholic matter of priests known for their dedication to education and missionary work.

He was also a lover in the Virgin Mary, and in this way, he chose to be buried in Santa Maria Magior, which is outside the Vatican walls in central Rome.

The Church includes Salos Popoli Romanian, a Byzantine icon for the Virgin, which is believed to be made by Saint Luke the missionary and used by Jesuit orders all over the world.

In his will, he wrote in 2022, Pope Francis said: “Throughout my life, and during my service as a priest and bishop, I always entrusted the mother of our Lord, the blessed Virgin Mary.”

He wrote: “I hope that my last terrestrial journey will end in this old Marian’s haven, as I always stopped praying at the beginning and end of each Royal journey, and I became entrusted with the confidence of my intentions to the pure mother, and I thank her pleasant care and mothers.”

On his first day in 2013, Francis left the Vatican to pray in Santa Maria Magor.

Seven Papo was buried in the same Bazilica in the ornate graves, however, the Argentine ink asked for his grave to be in the side corridor, between the Pauline chapel (Salous Popoli Romanian Caller) and the Sorsa Church, near a statue known as Mary Regeina Basis (Marie, Queen of Peace).

“Near the Queen of Peace, which I have always been wandering to help and who requested more than a hundred times during Pontvie,” he explained his will.

The Pope also requested that his grave be on the ground, simple and only bearing the “Franciskos” engraving, the Latin version of his chosen name.

We will broadcast the funeral here on the BBC news and app as part of our live coverage, and it will also be available to watch iPlayer.

In the United Kingdom, there will be a live coverage presented by Rete Chakrabarti from 0830-1230 BST on the BBC one – available to watch on iPlayer here.

There will also be live coverage on the BBC News channel provided by Maryam Moshiri – available to watch on iPlayer here.

You can also listen to the funeral coverage on BBC World Service.

Additional reports from Laura Jose