Interesting....as a junior in high school in Germany (Army brat), I had the opportunity to be in Rome and I actiually saw John XXIII laying in state at the Vatican while the election for a new pope was going one.
One regret I have is that I actually had a ticket to the mass of the Cardinals and missed it. That's the mass prior to the selection of a new pope. Was there with three other classmates who also had tickets and a Catholic priest. The only morning we actually slept in. You almost have to be a head of state to get into that mass. The priest was a close personal friend of Cardinal Cushing from St. Louis.....therefore the tickets.
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