POLAND: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND TAKE PART IN OPEN-AIR MASS IN HONOUR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II

Record ID: 584799

  • Title: POLAND: ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND TAKE PART IN OPEN-AIR MASS IN HONOUR OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
  • Date: 9th April 2005
  • Summary: KRAKOW, POLAND (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF STAGE WITH PICTURE OF JESUS CHRIST ON LARGE SCREEN AND CROWDS IN FOREGROUND; SCU PEOPLE LISTENING TO MASS WITH A SMALL BOY ON THEIR SHOULDERS 0.09 2. MV PRIESTS HOLDING MASS; SLV PAN CROWDS AND KRAKOW SKYLINE (2 SHOTS) 0.24 3. SLV CROWDS WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DEGREE PAN TO SHOW HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT MASS; WIDE OF PEOPLE IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME AT MASS; SCU PRIEST HOLDING PRAYERS (3 SHOTS) 0.52 4. WIDE CHAIR ON WHICH THE POPE JOHN PAUL II USED TO SIT TO HOLD MASS IN THE PLACE HE USED TO SIT TO HOLD MASS; SCU EMBLEM ON CHAIR; WIDE CROWDS (3 SHOTS) 1.11 5. WIDE PEOPLE DRESSED IN WHITE AT MASS; WIDE OF PRIEST HOLDING RELIGIOUS CEREMONY; SCU PRIEST HOLDING MASS (3 SHOTS) 1.28 6. SIDE SHOT CHAIR IN WHICH POPE USED TO SIT; SCU HANDS IN PRAYER; WIDE CHAIR ON STAGE WIH CROWDS IN BACKGROUND; SCU HANDS IN PRAYER WITH DISSOLVE TO SHOW PRIESTS STANDING AT FRONT OF CROWDS; SCU OLD WOMAN HOLDING CANDLE; WIDE STAGE (8 SHOTS) 2.08 7. MV PRIESTS HOLDING COMMUNION; WIDE OF CROWDS WITH CANDLES; SCU YOUNG WOMEN WITH CANDLES (3 SHOTS) 2.29 8. WIDE OF STAGE AND CROWDS WITH 180 DEGREE PAN TO SHOW THE MASSES OF CROWDS HOLDING CANDLES; WIDE CROWD KNEELING IN PRAYER WITH PAN OVER CROWD TO SHOW MASSES WITH CANDLES; CANDLES BEING HELD UP; WIDE STAGE (5 SHOTS) 3.15 9. WIDE CROWD HOLDING CANDLES UP WITH ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT DEGREE PAN TO SHOW MASSES 3.30 29. WIDE OF CANDLES AND THE STAGE WITH A DISSOLVE 3.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KRAKOW, POLAND
  • Country: Poland
  • Reuters ID: LVA98BXR4KYCKM50VQDSORMRPTVR
  • Story Text: 150,000 take part in large open-air mass in honour of Pope John Paul II.

    More than 150,000 pilgrims took part in an open-air mass in Krakow to
    honor their once archbishop who rose to become the leader of the Catholic
    church.

    Poland is observing six days of mourning, ending in a holiday on Friday
    (April 8) for John Paul's funeral, with flags at half mast, entertainment and
    sports events cancelled and television and radio stations playing mostly
    programmes about the Pope.

    Millions of Poles have attended church ceremonies and huge open-air masses
    in past days and as thousands are expected to attend the Pope's funeral in
    Rome.

    Sociologists said Poles were not only rallying around their greatest native
    son for spiritual reasons but also to cling to something positive.

    Poles' lives are filled with the struggles of a society newly joined to the
    European Union but still catching up with richer Western European states after
    nearly half a century of living under communism.

    "Poles want to be united by something innately good, something beyond their
    everyday lives," said Slawomir Kapralski, a professor at the School of Social
    Psychology in Warsaw.

    News programmes, usually pre-occupied by Poland's volatile politics and
    sleaze scandals ahead of upcoming elections, have also focused nearly entirely
    on the late Pontiff.


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