Nurses and doctors wearing their white hospital coats joined a torch-lit Good Friday procession in an hauntingly almost empty St. Peter’s Square, as Pope Francis presided over the ceremony which couldn’t be held at Rome’s Colosseum as tradition holds because of Italy’s lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic. The participation of Vatican medical personnel provided a stark reminder of how the virus outbreak has infused almost all walks of life. Francis watched from the steps outside St. Peter’s Basilica as the procession, which included a uniformed police officer, a Padua, Italy, prison chaplain and a former inmate, circled around the square’s central obelisk.
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