World Youth Day festival got underway Tuesday, with an estimated half million Roman Catholic faithful crowding onto Copacabana beach for a Mass under rainy skies.
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Preparations also continued in the town of Aparecida, where the pope will go Wednesday to visit the basilica that holds Brazil’s patron saint, the Virgin of Aparecida, and have lunch with bishops and seminarians.
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