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Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week leading up to Easter, and pays tribute to today's martyrs while thousands wave palm and olive branches in St. Peter's Square. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Pope Francis greets tens of thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square to watch him give the Easter mass and the traditional blessing. The Easter holy week, which commemorates the death and the resurrection of Christ, is the high point of the Catholic calendar. IMAGES
The Vatican puts up a 27-metre-high silver fir tree in the centre of St Peter's Square. The tree, which weighs 6.5 tonnes, comes from a forest in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. IMAGES
Tens of thousands of people gather in Saint Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis give the Easter mass and the traditional blessing. The Easter holy week, which commemorates the death and the resurrection of Christ, is the high point of the Catholic calendar. IMAGES
The coffin of ex-Pope Benedict XVI arrives in St. Peter’s Square ahead of his funeral. Almost a decade after he became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign, his successor Pope Francis will lead a requiem mass in the vast St. Peter's Square before his body is laid ro rest in the papal tombs beneath St Peter's Basilica. IMAGES
Preparations for the funeral of Benedict XVI are almost complete in St Peter's Square. Barriers and hundreds of chairs have been set up to welcome those who will come to attend the funeral of the Pope Emeritus on Thursday December 5. IMAGES
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