Pope Francis' funeral date was announced by the Vatican as the first photo of his body was released

Pope Francis“The funeral is scheduled to be announced on Saturday at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. east) local time. The coffin carrying the pope Died Monday morning After a stroke and heart failure at the age of 88, he will be taken to his residence in Casa Santa Marta on Wednesday morning, accompanied by Cardinal.

The pontiff's body was arranged in the coffin of the church in the residence of Santa Marta on Monday.

The Vatican released the first photo and videotape on his coffin on Francis on Tuesday, wearing a red rosary on his head, a papal cut and a rosary in his hand.

The images show the Cardinal and other church officials performing what the Vatican says is formally confirming the Pope's death and praying for his body.

CBS news correspondent Seth Doane said the intimate service at the Santa Marta Hotel gave senior clergy and Vatican insiders the opportunity to pay tribute to Francis. The Swiss Guard in the Vatican was as always on the side of the Pope.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the interim administrator of the Vatican, will play a major role in the funeral and subsequent events in the coming weeks, and will preside over the parade and ritual transfer of the Pope's body to St. Peter's Basilica.

The Vatican said the pope will be in the state from before the funeral at the cathedral on Wednesday morning. The funeral will be celebrated three days later by Giovanni Battista Re, the dean of the Cardinal College. The Pope's funeral was broken down into Three separate stagesor “radio”. They are the preparation of the body, the observation of the body, and then the burial.

Who will attend the funeral of Pope Francis?

The Vatican said Saturday's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica will attract “patriarchs, cardinals, archbishops and pastors from around the world”. Many world leaders and other VIPs will also attend.

The Pope's coffin will extend to the left of the main altar through the 500-year-old Basilica's so-called “Gate of Death” and a bell will be lost.

President Trump said on Monday that he and First Lady Melania will attend, as will Ukrainian President Vodimir Zelensky and France's Emmanuel Macron.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently the subject of the International Criminal Court arrest warrant war Allegedly committed a crime The Kremlin chief spokesman said on Tuesday that his country will not attend the pope's funeral during the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

When asked about Francis' funeral, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “No. The president has no such plan.” The ICC's assurance severely limits Putin's ability to travel internationally because any country that is a signator in the founding charter of the United Nations Court is legally obliged to arrest him if he enters his territory.

Reuters said Brazilian President Luis Inacio da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also confirmed that they will attend the funeral.

The Chinese government said on Tuesday that it did not decide which officials could participate in the Vatican service.

What happened to the funeral of Pope Francis?

After the funeral of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis's coffin will be taken to the Basilica of St. Mary in Rome, where he will be swallowed. The Pope chose to be buried in the smaller cathedral about four miles outside the Vatican walls. He often prayed at St. Mary's, before and after his 12-year temporary trip.

Between 15 and 20 days after the Pope's death, cardinal voters will gather in the Vatican and block themselves from the world behind the gates of the Sistine Church to the Pope's Council, a process of choosing the next pope for centuries. Only Cardinals under the age of 80 (about 135 people currently) are eligible to vote in a conference.

Tuesday's Cardinal's meeting was the first of a series of gatherings, eventually with the meeting. John Allen, editor of Catholic news website Crux, told CBS News that the Cardinal, who is already attending Tuesday's meeting, will soon be with others from around the world.

“The real important part of these meetings starts with the Cardinals starting to programmatic negotiations about where they think the church is… and the man's profile continues to move forward,” Allen told CBS News.

“To be clear: these are not the core of Iowa. The process of electing the next pope,” he said.

For actual meetings, the Cardinal will vote in the public eye to choose to lead the church, repeating the process until candidate It appears in more than two-thirds of the majority. After each round of votes, paper tickets are burned, sending out black smoke to indicate that there is no choice, and finally reveals that a new pope has been chosen.