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Thousands of people gathered at St Peter’s Square to sing Happy Birthday and dance a mass tango to celebrate the 78th birthday of the pope.Argentinian Pope Francis was born in the birthplace of the tango on 17 December 1936. On Wednesday, he heard versions of Happy Birthday in Spanish, Italian and other languages as he was driven through St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City to start his weekly general audience.Argentine priests handed him a cake and he blew out the candles before his open-top jeep moved on. The vehicle stopped again so that the pope, visibly pleased, could accept a birthday drawing from an Italian boy.
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