CALCUTTA, India (Reuter) - Mother Teresa`s body will be carried to her grave on the same gun carriage that bore Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru to their cremation sites, a senior army officer said on Thursday. Singh spoke to reporters in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta after the military took charge of the revered nun`s body in a simple ceremony. The Indian government has broken with tradition and decided to accord the Nobel Peace Prize winner a state funeral and national day of mourning on Saturday. Mother Teresa died last Friday of a heart attack at the age of 87. Her embalmed body has been lying under a glass encasement in St Thomas`s Church in Calcutta where thousands of people have paid their respects after waiting in a queue up to a mile long. State funerals usually are reserved for presidents and prime ministers. But Mother Teresa`s reputation in India and around the world as a Roman Catholic messenger of hope for the poorest of the poor induced the cabinet last weekend to opt for the pomp of a state funeral. President K.R. Narayanan and Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral will be joined at the funeral by French President Jacques Chirac, Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, U.S. First Lady Hillary Clinton and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino will head a delegation from the heavily Roman Catholic Philippines. A papal delegation will lead the funeral mass at the 12,000-seat Netaji Indoor Stadium after a procession in which Mother Teresa`s constituency - lepers, poverty-stricken people and homeless - will join military escorts. Pope John Paul will not attend. A Vatican cardinal said on Tuesday that Mother Teresa might be put on a faster track towards sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church because the Pope believes her life was so exemplary. Teresa, like Gandhi, held no public office but commanded a mass following. Gandhi, called an apostle of peace for his non-violent struggle against British rule, was shot dead by a Hindu fanatic died in 1948, the year that Mother Teresa founded her Roman Catholic order, Missionaries of Charity. The procession will stop 500 metres (yards) from the burial site, Mother House, which is the worldwide headquarters of Mother Teresa`s order that spans more than 100 nations.