Vatican Radio – Vatican News will provide live coverage of the funeral of Pope Francis on Place Saint -Pierre, followed by the procession in the streets of Rome to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, offering emissions in 15 languages, including four sign languages.
By Vatican News
The solemn mass of the Requiem for Pope Francis will attract the attention of the whole world, recalling the memories of a similar solemn moment twenty years ago with the funeral mass of Pope John Paul II, April 8, 2005.
At the same time, these funerals mark a unique opportunity for today’s media, because it will mark the first time that the transfer of fatal remains from one Vatican Pope to another place for burial will be broadcast live on a global scale.
All will take place on Saturday April 26, from 10:00 am, Rome time, when the Vatican Radio – Vatican News will broadcast live the mass of the Requiem, followed by the procession accompanying the coffin of the Pope from Place de Saint -Pierre to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where he will be deposited at rest, as for his wishes.
Live television coverage in 15 languages
To ensure that the widest possible public can follow events, the Dicastery for Communication (our parental organization) will provide live comments from radio and television in 15 languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese, German, Polish, Vietnamese, Spanish and French, as well as four signal languages: American sign (ASL) and French.
The television coverage, supplied by the Vatican Television Center – Vatican Media, will include an aerial video and on the Square Saint -Pierre square and all the road to the Basilica of St. Mary Major.
Multimedia coverage (print, radio, television and social media, including in -depth comments and analysis) will be offered in 56 languages - the same used on the Vatican News, Vatican Radio and Osservatore Romano platforms.
Diffusion channels and platforms
Here are the details on how to follow the broadcast of April 26:
– Vatican information website: www.vaticicannews.va (For the video, click on the Vatican MEDIA Live-Youtube tile; for audio only, click on the web radio speakers icon under the upper main menu). Vatican News App – Google Play,, Vatican News App – iTunes))
– Channeaux YouTube of the Vatican News (Sleeve – Original sound channel only))
– Vatican radio web radio In 11 languages (Vatican Radio App – Google Play,, Radio Vatiana App – iTunes))
– Short waves emissions in English, French and Portuguese for Africa
– Live cover on facebook In Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and German
– Instagram Live in Italian, Portuguese and German
Italian language cover
Three posts of comments in Italian language will be active: two on Saint-Pierre square and one outside of the Basilica of St. Mary Major. The live cover starts around 8:10 a.m. from the Charlamagne wing.
Around 9:30 am, the coverage will go to the main studio for the mass of the requiem, which begins at 10:00 am. From the morning, the St. Mary broadcasting station will also share the live coverage of prayers and the participation of the faithful.
Italian language diffusion frequencies:
– 103.8 fm in the city of Rome
– 105 FM for Rome and its surroundings
– DAB + Digital Radio (Info AT (www.digitalradio.it) (http://www.digitalradio.it)))))))
– 733 television channel in the Rome region
– Eutelsat satellite
