More than 135,000 have visited Vatican in days before unprecedented ceremony in which pope will bury his predecessor

Tens of thousands of Catholics are expected in St Peter’s Square for the funeral of the former pope Benedict XVI.

Benedict died on Saturday, aged 95, almost a decade after becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. He will become the first former pontiff in the modern history of the Catholic church to be buried by an incumbent pope, Francis.

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