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On the following day there was a soleh office in St Peter's All

Ro spectacle A dense

crowd thronged the streets, and all shouted and cried when the pope,

surrounded by his Swiss guard, appeared in their s of the people with a bland s, and to St Peter's the pope

was borne The features of Ganganelli had an expression of sadness, and

as he now glanced down upon the thousands of his subjects who,

shouting, followed hi you will be

will you yet allow me to live? Ah, were I

yet the poor Franciscan monk I was, then no one would take the pains to

assassinate me Why, then, does the world, precisely now, seem so fair

to me, nohen I know that I must leave it so soon?" And the pope

shed a secret tear while, surrounded by royal splendor, he i to the thousands who reverently knelt at his feet

The bells rang, the organ resounded, the wide halls of St Peter's were

penetrated by theof the Sistine chapel Thousands

and thousands of wax tapers lighted the noble space of the church,

thousands and thousands of people pressed into the sacred halls Under