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Pope's Urbi et Orbi blessing on Easter Sunday

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  Thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square to listen to Pope Benedict XVI deliver his Urbi et Orbi blessing from his window on Easter Sunday. Urbi et Orbi, is Latin for "to the city and the world".

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