Posted AT 10:00 AM EST on 09/04/05
Millions around the world mark final journey
ions of Roman Catholics who could not get to Italy bid farewell to the Pope in myriad services around the globe yesterday."It is almost like being there in Rome," Georgina Vega, a primary-school teacher, said at a mass in the Basilica de Guadalupe, Mexico's holiest shrine. "Being here with a candle, sharing the warmth with others, transports me there."
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