Trainee priests join Pope for Earls procession

Six Irish trainee priests will take part in a special ceremony with Pope Benedict today marking the Flight of the Earls.

Trainee priests join Pope for Earls procession

Six Irish trainee priests will take part in a special ceremony with Pope Benedict today marking the Flight of the Earls.

The procession through the streets of Rome re-enacts chieftain Hugh O’Neill’s role in the Corpus Christi ceremony in Rome in 1608.

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