Survivors and relatives of infants from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home say are standing together for the sake of the babies that have been buried in a sewage tank in Tuam, and are planning a vigil to coincide with the Pope’s Mass in Dublin.

The vigil will take place in Tuam on Sunday week, to coincide with the Papal Mass in the Phoenix Park.

Historian Catherine Corless will join relatives at the vigil.

Ms Corless traced the death certificates for 796 infants at the former home in Tuam.

The State’s Commission of Investigation confirmed in March 2017 that it had discovered significant quantities of infant bone at the Tuam site.

Ms Corless and members of the Tuam Babies Family Group will light candles and place a special sculpture made by Flemish women in the shape of a baptismal font at the grave site of the former Bon Secours home.

They will also read out the names of those who are believed to have been buried there.

The event has been timed to coincide with the Pope’s Mass in Dublin.