# The Vatican has announced Pope Francis’s funeral will be held on Saturday, as world leaders, from US president Donald Trump to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said they would attend to honour the Catholic leader. His funeral, which is expected to draw huge crowds, will take place in the square in front of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. The pontiff’s coffin, which he previously ordered should be of wood and zinc, will then be taken inside the church and from there to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for burial.
Pope Francis to be buried in wood and zinc coffin on Saturday