A short series of miscellaneous photographs. Often we see photographs of the Pope greeting the Faithful from the central loggia of Saint Peter's. In this post, we look at a scenes which we rarely see, but which those on the balcony do.
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Christmas Day 2010. |
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Christmas Day 2010. |
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After Josef Ratzinger's first Greeting to the World as Pope Benedict XVI: April 2005. |