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faithful holding palm branches and a "Peace" flag walk under Bernini's colonnade as they leave St. Peter's Square at the Vaticana fter the Palm Sunday Mass, Sunday, March 20, 2005. Pope John Paul II, unable to preside over Palm Sunday Mass for the first time in his 26-year papacy, appeared at his apartment window to greet tens of thousands of pilgrims who filled St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)