Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME, April 23rd, 2005
Seamus Griesbach was sharing a pastry and coffee with friends from Sanford earlier this week when the bells of Rome tolled, announcing a new pope. The cafe where the 26-year-old seminarian and his guests were eating was a 20-minute walk from the Vatican balcony where the new pope would make his first appearance. "We began walking quickly" toward St. Peter's Square, he said Wednesday in a telephone interview from Rome. "Priests and sisters, their long habits hiked up above their ankles, were running past us. It seemed like the whole city was running toward St. Peter's Square. When we got the...
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