An elderly French priest murdered a week ago by two extremists tried to push away his attackers with his feet, saying “go away, Satan”, the archbishop of Rouen has told his funeral Mass.

Muslims have attended Catholic Masses in churches and cathedrals across France in a gesture of solidarity after the brutal killing of an 85-year-old French priest in Normandy.

Pope Francis has expressed “sorrow and horror” over the suspected terror attack in a French church.

Ireland’s Catholic primate Archbishop Eamon Martin joined in the voicing of global shock as he offered prayers to those affected by the terrorist murder of an 86-year-old priest at his church in France.

A nun who escaped said she saw the attackers video themselves.