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Pontiff delivers off-the-cuff speech and takes selfies at the start of Roman Catholic Holy Week leading up to EasterPope Francis began the Holy Week leading up to Easter by celebrating Palm Sunday with around 100,000 pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square.Palm Sunday marks the day that the Gospels say Jesus rode into Jerusalem, shortly before his arrest and crucifixion, with his followers laying cloaks and palm fronds over his path into the city.
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