Michiganders, including a group of students and their teachers from Metro Detroit, joined tens of thousands of people from around the world at the Vatican on Saturday to pay their respects to the pope​ before he is laid to rest.

Pope Francis, 88, died April 21, the Vatican announced. No cause of death was included in the statement. In February, after a bout with bronchitis, he had been hospitalized in Rome with what Vatican officials called a “complex clinical picture” that included a diagnosis of double pneumonia.