Pope greets Palm Sunday pilgrims

POPE JOHN PAUL II, unable to preside over Palm Sunday Mass for the first time in his 26-year papacy, appeared at his apartment window to greet tens of thousands of pilgrims who filled St Peter’s Square yesterday.

Pope greets Palm Sunday pilgrims

The crowd cheered as the Pope appeared at the third-floor window, and waved an olive branch to pilgrims who jammed the sun-drenched square for the ceremony ushering in Holy Week.

He appeared for no more than a minute, and did not speak, before the white curtains at his window were drawn closed.

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