Pope celebrates first outdoor mass in Poland
Associated PressUpdated: 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
WARSAW, Poland - Heavy rain poured down on Warsaw on Friday as Pope Benedict celebrated his first outdoor mass before hundreds of thousands of Poles who turned out for his pilgrimage in the steps of his Polish predecessor John Paul.
Although organizers had expected a million faithful to gather on the same square where John Paul held his first papal mass here in 1979, initial police estimates spoke of almost 300,000 coming to pray with the German-born Pope.
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