At the papal Mass, about 160 people were treated for medical problems, most of them minor and many heat-related.

They said 3,000 people had clashed briefly with the police after attending a papal mass in Cracow.

A papal Mass is a serious event.

Holy Week in Rome also greatly moved him, especially the papal high mass on Easter.

The millions who gathered in the Philippines were said by clerics to be the biggest audience the Pope had ever seen at a papal Mass.

When he was eight, his parents had taken him to Italy, and they had attended a papal mass at St. Peter's basilica.

He had the Gospel chanted in Latin and Greek, as once was done at every papal Mass.

Marini has received praise for returning traditional elements of the church's liturgical history to the papal Masses and other liturgical celebrations.

The first papal mass was celebrated by Pope John Paul II in the cathedral in 1987.

A Quick Return To Flying Hooves Yesterday it was host to 75,000 people at a papal Mass.