Thousands more queue to see Pope Francis on second day of lying in state | Religion News

About 61,000 people filed past the pontiff’s coffin in the first 26 hours at St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican says.

Tens of thousands of people have lined up in Vatican City to catch a final glimpse of Pope Francis as he lay in state for a second day and Italian authorities stepped up security arrangements before his weekend funeral.

Francis died aged 88 on Monday morning in his rooms at the Vatican’s Santa Marta guesthouse, having only recently left hospital after five weeks of being…