St. Peter's Basilica
Easter Sunday, crowd assembles
The feisty nun in the grey habit will soon be standing on her chair, waving her arms, yelling into her cell phone. Also, note the television monitor below the statue, an odd juxtaposition.
Crowd gathers, looking around, music in the distance, what can it be?
Oh snap! It's the Vatican band, take a picture!
Naturally, the band didn't cause half so much ruckus as when this guy entered the scene:
It's the pope!
This is the best picture I could get of Pope Benedict, it's from the papal address after mass, so he's up on his papal balcony. I made have said this before, but the Filipina nuns took the prize (or would have, if there'd been a prize) for loudest response when the pope made gave his linguistic shout-outs (although the Germans and the Polish weren't far behind)
Mass was probably about an hour an a half and each reading and song was in a different language, they covered Latin, English, German, Spanish, and French...and a few others I believe
Cool!
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