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Ten of thousands of pilgrims queue outside Saint Peter's Basilica to see the late Pope John Paul II lying in state at the Vatican April 5, 2005. Roman Catholic cardinals gathered on Monday for the first time since the Pontiff's death to organise a funeral expected to draw the greatest tide of pilgrims and heads of state to the Vatican in its history. REUTERS/Max Rossi |
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The body of the late Pope John Paul II lies in state in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica April 4, 2005. Pall bearers, cardinals and monks took Pope John Paul on one last trip from his palace on Monday, escorting his body to St. Peter's, the church that was his for 26 years and will be his burial place. (Pool/Reuters) |
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Nuns of the Swedish Brigitine order pay their respects to the late Pope John Paul II whose body is placed for public viewing inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Tuesday, April 5, 2005. Thousands of people filed pass the body of the Polish pontiff who died on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) |
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File photo of Pope John Paul II waving as a dove flies in front of him during a celebration in St Peter's Square for tens of thousands of youths from Rome and the surrounding province of Lazio, ahead of the 18th World Youth Day celebrations on Palm Sunday 10 April 2003. The long fond farewell to Pope John Paul II was only just beginning as more than 100,000 ordinary mourners lined up to enter St Peter's Basilica during a lying-in-state which is to last three days. (AFP/File/Paolo Cocco) |
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Mourners queue to enter St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to pay their respects to the late Pope John Paul II Tuesday, April 5, 2005. Thousands of people filed pass the body of the Polish pontiff who died on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher) |
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Mourners queue to enter St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to pay their respects to the late Pope John Paul II Tuesday, April 5, 2005. Thousands of people filed pass the body of the Polish pontiff who died on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher) |
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Pilgrims hold up a Polish flag as they queue outside Saint Peter's Basilica to see the late Pope John Paul lying in state at the Vatican April 5, 2005. A sea of faithful filed past the late Pope's body on Tuesday as the Roman Catholic church prepared for his funeral and the choice of a successor to the third-longest reigning pontiff. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez |
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Mourners file pass the body of Pope John Paul II inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Tuesday, April 5, 2005. Thousands of mourners queued to pay their respects to the late Polish pontiff who died on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) |
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The body of Pope John Paul II lies in state in Saint Peter's Basilica as mourners walk past at the Vatican April 5, 2005. Up to two million people are expected for the funeral on Friday as well as almost 200 world leaders in an unprecedented salute for a pontiff who helped bring down the Iron Curtain and stamped an uncompromising orthodoxy on his own faith. REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico |