The body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrived at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral on Thursday morning, where it will lie in state for two days for mourners to pay their final respects.
The casket containing the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at St Georges cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on Dec. 30, 2021.CAPE TOWN – The body of South Africa’s anti-apartheid theologian, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, arrived at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral on Thursday morning, where it will lie in state for two days for mourners to pay their final respects.
Tutu, a Nobel Peace prize winner widely revered across racial and cultural divides in South Africa for his moral rectitude and principled fight against white-minority rule,Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s body will lie in a state over a two-day span at St. George’s Cathedral.
Emotional family members met the coffin outside the church entrance, where six black-robed clergy acting as pall bearers carried the closed coffin inside to an inner sanctuary. Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s son in law Mthunzi Gxashe and daughter Thandeka Tutu embrace each other as Tutu’s casket arrives at the cathedral on Dec. 30, 2021.Tutu, who requested the cheapest coffin and did not want any lavish funeral expense, will be cremated and his remains interred behind the St George’s Cathedral pulpit he often used to preach against racial injustice.
The public will have an opportunity to view Tutu’s body between 9 a.m. local time and 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, ahead of a requiem mass funeral service on Saturday where President Cyril Ramaphosa was expected to deliver a eulogy.Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died at age 90, will be cremated and his remains interred behind the St George’s Cathedral.Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 in recognition of his non-violent opposition to white minority rule.
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