The official ceremonies program for Pope Francis:
9:00 am isth
San Pedro Square opens.
1:00 pm isth
The president of the United States, Donald Trump and his wife Melania, arrive at the Plaza de San Pedro.
1:30 PM IST
The funeral mass begins. He will be chaired by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the Faculty of Cardinals.
The wooden and zinc coffin of Pope Francis, sealed Friday night, will be placed in front of the basilica before an elevated temporal altar. To his left, in front of San Pedro, he will sit to the cardinals of red robbery. On the right, official delegations from around the world, sitting in alphabetical order.
The ceremony should last about 90 minutes, with 224 cardinals and 750 priests and bishops.
3:00 pm isth
The coffin leaves for Santa María Maggiore, the Basilica of Rome where Pope Francis will be buried.
4:30 PM IST
The coffin arrives in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he will be welcome by a group of the “poor and needy.”
The burial, chaired by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who as Camerlengo directs the daily issues of the Vatican until a new Pope is chosen, will be carried out in private.
