President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca prayed silently over the coffin of Archbishop Guzeppi Merieca  in the oratory of St John's Co-Cathedral this morning.

Hundreds of people filed past the simple coffin during the day.

The funeral mass will be held tomorrow at 4pm.

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