Live | Pope Francis’s funeral: They open Plaza del Vaticano for burial; details, reactions and where to see

Nails 250,000 people presented their respects before the coffin of Pope Francis During the three days of burning chapel in the Basilica of San Pedro, which ended this Friday, April 25, hours prior to funeral.

Now, for hours of the morning in Colombia, the Argentine pontiff will be buried. The Vatican confirmed that the funeral will officially begin at 10:00 am (3 am in local time) in the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano and will be officiated by Cardinal Dean, Giovanni Battista Re, given the presence of other purpurated and curia.

Similarly, more than 50 elected state leaders and ten monarchs in exercise will be present at the Mass. Among the confirmed attendees are Presidents Javier Milei, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump, who arrived in Rome on Friday night, on their first trip abroad from his return to power.

Follow the live: last news, reactions, conclave and details of Pope Francis’s funeral

1:40 am | San Pedro Square is filled with faithful hours before the start of the Pope’s funeral

Thousands of faithful begin to fill on Saturday the Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano hours before Pope Francis’s funeral begins, a ceremony that is expected to congregate about 200,000 people, in addition to dozens of International authorities.

International media register that hundreds of tourists and premises continue to reach the square to ensure a good vision of the ceremony, since once its maximum capacity the devotees that access must be placed along the conciliation route, where giant screens have been installed.

1:20 am | The funeral car that will wear Francisco’s coffin will be an adapted papamóvil

The funeral car that will take the coffin of Pope Francis this Saturday of the Vatican to the Roman Basilica of Santa María the Major will be an adapted papamobile for this funeral ceremony and that the Pontiff used on a trip to the East.

This will be the last trip of the Argentine pontiff in one of these vehicles with which those who used to move between the masses.

The chosen papamobile has been one that Francisco used on one of his trips to the East, as confirmed by the Vatican press office, and for this occasion the car has been adapted to be able to carry on a platform the coffin.

1:00 am | President Zelenski arrives in Rome to attend the Pope’s funeral

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, arrived on Saturday to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, announced his spokesman in kyiv.

“The two presidents could meet,” said this person in charge of anonymity. Trump said when he arrived in Rome that kyiv and Moscow were “very close” to a fire cessation agreement.

12:55 am | The official program of the funeral of Pope Francis

Pope Francis’s last trip will begin on Saturday with a funeral mass in several languages ​​in the Plaza Vaticana de San Pedro, before his burial in the Basilica of Santa María la Mayor, in the center of Rome.

The ceremony will last around an hour and a half and, in it, 224 cardinals and 750 bishops and priests will participate.

The wood and zinc coffin, sealed Friday night, will be located in the square, before the altar. The delegations will be sitting in alphabetical order, to the right of the altar and the coffin looking towards the basilica.

For about 30 minutes, the procession will travel slowly for about four kilometers the streets of Rome and will pass in front of emblematic sites such as imperial forums and coliseum.

Cardinal Camarlengo Kevin Farrell will preside over the burial, which will be held in private.

23: 22 pm | Open the Plaza del Vaticano to the faithful to attend the funeral of Pope Francis

The Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano has already opened its accesses to the public to allow the participation in the funeral of Pope Francis, in which the presence of some 200,000 people and dozens of authorities is expected.

The main access of the conciliation opened shortly after 6:00 local hours (11:00 pm Colombia time) and the faithful began to enter little by little, in a controlled way, to occupy the first rows of the area arranged for the public, below the authorities.

23:02 pm | The Vatican prepares for a massive goodbye to the Pope between faithful and authorities

The Plaza de San Pedro del Vaticano hosts this Saturday at 10 am the funeral of the Pope, in which thousands of people and delegations headed by representatives of more than one hundred countries are expected, such as the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, or that of the US, Donald Trump, among many others.

The coffin with the body of Pope Francis will be taken on his shoulders from within the Basilica, where he has been exposed for three days, to be left in the ‘Sacred’, the upper part of the square.

In the first row of the authorities the delegation of the native country of the Pope, Argentina, headed by its president, Javier Milei, as well as Italy, with the president, Sergio Mattarella, and the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, at the head.

22:50 pm | Where to see the burial of Pope Francis?

Time will make a special coverage of the event from the Vatican. Follow the live broadcast from 2:30 am here:

22:01 pm | Francisco will be buried with his used shoes and in a coffin that carries his shield

The late Pope Francis will be buried inside a simple coffin, sealed and marked with his pontifical shield in an ancient and solemn ceremony this Friday in the Basilica of San Pedro, and will rest with his used shoes.

The ceremony was chaired privately by Cardinal Camarlengo, Kevin Joseph Farrell, inside the Vatican Basilica once the burning chapel was completed and after three days in which 250,000 faithful have passed to give him the last goodbye

*With information from EFE and AFP.

Writing last news.