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Title: Pope John Paul II's body exhumed ahead of beatification
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MSNBC
URL Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42819424/ns/world_news/?GT1=43001
Published: Apr 29, 2011
Author: unattributed
Post Date: 2011-04-29 21:46:57 by A K A Stone
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VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II's coffin was exhumed on Friday ahead of his beatification as tens of thousands of people began arriving in Rome for one of the biggest events since his funeral in 2005. The Vatican said the coffin was removed from the crypts below St. Peter's Basilica while top Vatican officials and some of the late pope's closest aides looked on and prayed. Those present at the ceremony included Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, his personal secretary and right-hand man for decades, and the Polish nuns who ran the papal household for 27 years. The wooden coffin will be placed in front of the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica. After Sunday's beatification mass, it will remain in that spot and the basilica will remain open until all visitors who want to view it have done so. It will then be moved to a new crypt under an altar in a side chapel near Michelangelo's statue of the Pieta. The marble slab that covered his first burial place will be sent to Poland. The pope is being beatified on the day the church celebrates the movable Feast of Divine Mercy, which this year happens to fall on May 1, the most important feast in the communist world. The coincidence is ironic, given that many believe the pope played a key role in the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Whitesands just blew a gasket.
------------------------------------- I think Whitesands was brought up catholic.
I think a shrink could pay off the national debt trying to figure that clown out.
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
It happens to the best of us.
It happens to the best of us. Purely speculation on my part.
You must be a hard shell Baptist.
Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
#2. To: Biff Tannen (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
I think Whitesands was brought up catholic.
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
I think Whitesands was brought up catholic.
#5. To: Bartcoprules (#4)
I think Whitesands was brought up catholic.
#6. To: A K A Stone (#5)
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