SUMMARY:
- OVER 20
MILLION PARTICIPANTS IN PAPAL EVENTS SINCE 2005
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OVER 20
MILLION PARTICIPANTS IN PAPAL EVENTS SINCE 2005
Vatican
City, 4 January 2013 (VIS) - The Prefecture of the Papal Household
today published a communique in which it reported that during 2012,
2,351,200 faithful participated in the various encounters with
Benedict XVI: general audiences (447,000), private audiences
(146,800), liturgical celebrations (501,400), Angelus and Regina
Coeli (1,256,000). These data refer exclusively to activities which
took place within the Vatican and at Castel Gandolfo, and do not
include other events during which hundreds of thousands of faithful
have gathered around the Pope, such as apostolic visits to Mexico and
Cuba last spring, and to Lebanon in September. During the past year
the Pope also made several visits within Italy, for instance to
Arezzo-San Sepolcro, Emilia Romagna, Loreto, and the World Meeting of
Families in Milan in June.
The
Prefecture of the Papal Household emphasises that these are
approximate data calculated on the basis of requests to participate
in events and invitations issued by the Prefecture. Additionally, an
estimate has been given for the number of attendees at the Angelus
and the major celebrations in St. Peter's Square.
In total,
according to the data provided by the Prefecture of the Papal
Household, 20,544,970 people have attended papal events with Benedict
XVI.
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