Rhode Island gives Judge Frank Caprio a big sendoff

Friday’s funeral Mass at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul will be live-streamed at RIPBS.org starting at 10 a.m.

Judge Frank Caprio had famously humble beginnings. But Friday he is receiving a farewell in grand style — the Rhode Island equivalent of a state funeral — befitting a man some people called “the nicest judge in the world.”

The Archbishop of Boston Richard Henning will preside over the funeral Mass at the cathedral.

After that, there will be a procession down Atwells Avenue, in the neighborhood where he was born in a cold water flat 88 years ago.

Finally he will be laid to rest at St. Ann Cemetery in Cranston in a private family burial.

At the Rhode Island Convention Center Thursday, hundreds of people came to pay their last respects.

The judge lay in state on the sec