Pilgrims keep streaming to Vatican to honour Pope Benedict

Nuns queue before dawn to view the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as it lies in state in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The Vatican announced that Pope Benedict died on Dec. 31, 2022, at 95, and that his funeral will be held on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Queues of people are snaking around St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for a second day as they wait to view the body of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

He died on Saturday at the age of 95 after 10 years of retirement from the papacy and increasingly frail health.