After a week of global mourning for Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88, the pope's funeral will be celebrated on Saturday . Francis' funeral will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. local time at St.

Pope Francis' funeral brought world leaders, monarchs, and hundreds of thousands of people to Rome on Saturday to bid him farewell in a ceremony of breathtaking spectacle that offered age-old Catholic funeral rites and touching moments of personal grief.