The reason why we went to Rome is because the boy wants to see the Pope in person during General Audience with the Pope at Vatican City. This takes place every Wednesday unless Pope has a special event that he needs to attend. To participate this event, you will need to get tickets from the Swiss Guard. Only the Swiss guard near the road hands out the ticket, it is between the St Peter’s square and the Vatican museum. The event itself is free (beware of people trying to sell the tickets). The events take place at St Peter’s Square at 10:30am. It goes for about 1.5-2 hours. There are numbers of seats, but you have to get there super early.
In our case, we got to St Peter’s Square at 8:30am and it was already packed. Luckily we were able to stand close to the fence. Around 10:30am, the pope goes around the audience in his car. He stopped and blessed all the babies before heading to the stage.
The preach is done in Italian with about 9 different languages translations by other priests. It ends with the Pope blessing everyone. It was quite interesting especially when the Pope was around the audience. You can get quite close to him. If you do go to Rome during weekday, I do recommended to go there and experience the pilgrimage.
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