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00:00What more do we know?
00:02Well, this is what's going to happen in the next few days until Saturday, which is the day of the funeral.
00:07Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Pope will be taken to St. Peter's Basilica.
00:13His coffin will remain there until the day of the funeral, of course, for people to pay respects.
00:20Now, it will take place, when we're talking about the funeral now, it will take place outdoors, right in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
00:28The dean of the College of Cardinals will, of course, lead the service, the funeral service.
00:34He will deliver the final commendation, as it's called, which is like a concluding prayer, formally entrusting the Pope to God.
00:45And then, after the funeral, the Pope's body will be moved to St. Mary Maggiore, where he will be buried.
00:54And, by the way, he is the first in a century, the first Pope in a century, not to be buried in St. Peter's Basilica.
01:02But this is the thing about Pope Francis, the late Pope Francis, that he did a lot of changes.
01:08And he actually did a lot of arrangements for his funeral last year, where he changed a lot of things.
01:14One of them, that he will be in a wooden coffin, not in the elaborate three coffins that usually popes are sort of, you know, put into before the burial.