President Donald Trump will be among the world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis set for Saturday Saturday, April 26 in Rome. The head of the Catholic church died Monday at 88 years old following a life-threatening battle with respiratory ailments.

His body, lying in an open casket, was set to be taken from the chapel of the Vatican residence where he lived to St Peter's, entering through the central door, in a grand procession starting at 9 a.m. (0700 GMT), with cardinals and Latin chants.

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full of pomp and pageantry, as the world’s Catholics bid him farewell and cardinals in the Vatican ready themselves for the millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.