Kennedy to Have Boston Funeral, Burial Alongside Brothers at Arlington Cemetery

President Obama will deliver the eulogy at Sen. Ted Kennedy's funeral Saturday at a Boston church.

Kennedy will lie in repose Thursday and Friday at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. He will be buried Saturday near his brothers at Arlington National Cemetery, FOX News has learned.

After the Mass, Obama will likely return to Martha's Vineyard where he is on vacation with his family. He will not attend the burial at Arlington, the official said.

A private family Mass will take place in the senator's home in Hyannis Port Thursday. The Kennedy family plans to travel by motorcade with his body from their compound to the library in Boston following the Mass. The facility will be open to the public for certain periods on both days while Kennedy lies in repose. The Kennedys have planned a private memorial service at the library for Friday night, according to a schedule of events released by Kennedy's Senate office.

On Saturday morning, a funeral Mass for the late senator will take place at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica -- commonly known as the Mission Church -- in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. A church official told the Associated Press that former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush are expected to attend. The cavernous basilica on Tremont Street, built in the 1870s, was where Kennedy prayed daily while his daughter, Kara, successfully battled her own cancer.

"Over time, the Basilica took on special meaning for him as a place of hope and optimism," the family statement said.The last surviving brother of the Kennedy clan died Tuesday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He was 77.

Sources say the funeral will be held in Boston before a burial at Arlington -- a symbolic resting place.

Brothers John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, both assassinated, are buried across the Potomac River from Washington. The late senator will be buried in a plot next to theirs.

Other services will be held in Massachusetts. The funeral will be held at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in the Mission Hill section of Boston, according to a Democratic source close to the family. It is the same church where Kennedy prayed while his daughter Kara overcame cancer.

Tribute areas are also being set up in Boston and Hyannis.

John F. Kennedy is one of just two former U.S. presidents buried at Arlington -- but any president or elected official in the U.S. government is eligible.

Arlington Cemetery spokesman Dave Foster said Ted Kennedy was eligible in two ways. Because he served in the U.S. Army decades ago, Kennedy was eligible for his cremated remains to be placed in an urn at Arlington.

But as a senator he was eligible to be buried there. Though the cemetery is running out of space, it is active and still holds about 6,400 burials a year.

Prominent members of the Kennedy family are also buried at plots in Massachusetts.

The senator's parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose F. Kennedy, are buried at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Mass. It was thought that President Kennedy would be buried there alongside his parents, before first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis asked that he be buried at Arlington.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was recently buried at the St. Francis Xavier parish cemetery in Centerville, Mass. A pastor at the church said she is the only Kennedy buried there.

FOX News' Major Garrett contributed to this report.