VATICAN: ARTICIAL SNOW AND LIGHT SHOW USED AT THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE FOUNDING OF ST. MARY MAJOR BASILICA.

Record ID: 584795

  • Title: VATICAN: ARTICIAL SNOW AND LIGHT SHOW USED AT THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS OF THE FOUNDING OF ST. MARY MAJOR BASILICA.
  • Date: 5th August 2004
  • Summary: (W8) ROME, ITALY (AUGUST 5, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) NIGHT SHOTS 1. PAN: LIGHT SHOW ON BUILDINGS IN FRONT OF ST. MARY MAJOR. 0.10 2. LAS: RESIDENTS LOOKING OUT OF THEIR WINDOW. 0.13 3. WS: CHURCH BATHED IN COLOURED LIGHTING. 0.19 4. SCU: POLICEMAN WITH CHURCH IN BACKGROUND. 0.23 5. VARIOUS: OF SNOW MACHINE WITH GIRL EATING AN ICE CREAM. PLAYING. (3 SHOTS) 0.39 6. GV/PAN: SCENE. 0.50 7. VARIOUS: VARIOUS OF SNOW MACHINE WITH CHILDREN PLAYING. (5 SHOTS) 1.13 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) CLARA SAYING: "It's beautiful, very beautiful -- I'm moved." 1.23 9. GV: MORE OF SCENE. 1.28 10. VARIOUS: MORE OF CHILDREN AND SNOW MACHINE. (4 SHOTS) 2.01 11. CU: POSTER /TILT UP: TO WOMAN'S FACE. 2.16 12. VARIOUS: SCENES OF CHILDREN AND SNOW. (4 SHOTS) 2.35 13. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ILARIA SAYING: "I wanted to get all the snow on my face - I almost managed to do it." 2.44 14. VARIOUS: MORE OF CHILDREN PLAYING IN SNOW. 2.56 15. GV: MORE OF SNOW. 3.00 16. WS: MORE SCENE OF BASILICA. 3.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th August 2004 13:00
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  • Location: VATICAN CITY, VATICAN
  • Reuters ID: LVA2OUZD18JGTUSXRYLR5IT1LUNP
  • Story Text: Snow falls in Rome for celebration.


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    One of Rome's most important Basilicas, St. Mary
    Major, was bathed in coloured lights and snow on Thursday
    evening (August 5) to celebrate its founding some 1,650
    years ago.

    According to legend, the Virgin Mary appeared to the
    pope in August, 352 AD and told him to go to Romes
    Esquiline Hill and build a church on a spot covered with
    newly fallen snow.

    Ever since, the capital has celebrated the miracle with
    music, atmospheric lighting and -- in modern times, thanks
    to technology -- fake snow.

    "It's beautiful, very beautiful -- I'm moved," said
    Clara, holding up a poster of the celebrations.

    "I wanted to get all the snow on my face," said young
    Illaria, who stood in front of the snow machine. "I almost
    managed to do it," she smiled.

    A mass on Thursday morning celebrating the feast day of
    the Rome Basilica was presided over by Cardinal Bernard
    Law, who was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston over
    a sexual abuse scandal.

    Law held his first public mass in the ornate church
    which Pope John Paul entrusted to him earlier in this year.




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