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Article: Pope opens Holy Week; Vatican celebrates Palm Sunday Mass
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2006
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - 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 processed through St.
Peter's Square in Rome, which was lush with the palms and olive trees
that are emblematic of the ceremony.
The pope told tens of thousands of people gathered under a
brilliant springtime sun that the olive branches were symbols of
Christ's peace, the palms symbols of his martyrdom. Palm Sunday marks
the beginning of the church's weeklong commemoration of the last days ...