PHOTO OF THE DAY April 2, 2005  

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Where Vatican City
When 1991
Photographer James L. Stanfield

"Pastor of the world's largest religious body, Pope John Paul II incenses an altar at Mass."

—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991

News story: Inside the Vatican
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