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Pope Fran­cis will be laid to rest Sat­ur­day af­ter ly­ing in state for three days in St. Pe­ter’s Basil­i­ca, where the faith­ful are ex­pect­ed to flock to pay their re­spects to his­to­ry’s first Latin Amer­i­can pon­tiff.

The car­di­nals met Tues­day in the Vat­i­can’s syn­od hall to chart the next steps be­fore a con­clave be­gins to choose Fran­cis’ suc­ces­sor, as con­do­lences poured in from around the world. Ac­cord­ing to cur­rent norms, the con­clave must be­gin be­tween May 5 and 10.

The car­di­nals set the fu­ner­al for Sat­ur­day at 10 a.m. in St. Pe­ter’s Square, to be cel­e­brat­ed by the dean of the Col­lege of Car­di­nals, Car­di­nal Gio­van­ni Bat­tista Re. U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said he and first la­dy Mela­nia Trump plan to at­tend, and Ar­gen­tine Pres­i­dent Javier Milei is al­so ex­pect­ed.