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Article: Pope Opens Holy Week With Palm Sunday Mass
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NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
04-09-2006
Dateline: VATICAN CITY
Cardinals make the sign of the Cross as they are blessed by Pope Benedict XVI at the end of the Palm Sunday Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 9, 2006. Palm Sunday commemorates Jesus Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem, and is the start of the church's Holy Week. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
Pope Benedict XVI blessed palm fronds and olive branches Sunday in the Vatican, opening a ritual-filled Holy Week that pilgrims in Jerusalem celebrated in a procession retracing Jesus' triumphant return to the holy city some 2,000 years ago.
Wearing embroidered red vestments, Benedict ...