- Title: ITALY: VATICAN CITY: POPE'S EASTER BLESSING
- Date: 21st April 1963
- Summary: 1. GV ST PETER'S SQUARE (2 SHOTS) 0.09 2. LV BAND PLAY PAN TO GUARD 0.16 3. SV CROWD 0.21 4. GV DITTO 0.28 5. SV POPE WALK ON TO BALCONY AND SPEAKS 0.42 6. CU WOMAN IN CROWD 0.45 7. SV POPE SPEAKING & GIVES BLESSINGS 1.07 8. CU NUN 1.10 9. SV POPE BLESSES CROWD 1.23 10. GV ST PETER'S SQUARE 1.37 Initials JNT/V/WH/SGM Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 6th May 1963 13:00
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- Location: VATICAN CITY, VATICAN
- Country: Italy
- Reuters ID: LVA6DSHN3KNRD06KV652XJYT99I6
- Story Text: ON EASTER SUNDAY POPE JOHN ADDRESSED ONE OF THE LARGEST COSMOPOLITAN CROWDS EVER ASSEMBLED IN ST PETER'S SQUARE IN THE VATICAN. AFTERWARDS, HE BLESSED THEM.
SPEAKING TO THE CROWD - AND AN AUDIENCE OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY MEANS OF AN INTERNATIONAL RADIO HOOK-UP-THE POPE SAID HE WANTED ALL CHRISTIANS TO LEAD LIVES THAT WOULD BE A CREDIT TO THEIR FAITH.
ON EASTER SATURDAY THE POPE DELIVERED THIS TRADITIONAL EASTER MESSAGE WHICH WAS TRANSLATED AND BROADCAST AS FAR AFIELD AS AFRICA AND THE IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES AND ON TELEVISION. HE TOLD LISTENERS THAT HE REGARDED HIS RECENT ENCYCLICAL AS AN EASTER GIFT - IT WAS AN EFFORT TO ATTAIN PEACE.
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