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• Sept. 13: A crowd of faithful attend an outdoors mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, on podium at rear, on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris. The mass is is Benedict's only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year. The Invalides dome and the Military School building are seen in background.
• Sept. 13: Pope Benedict XVI gestures as he sits in his popemobile, leaving after a visit to the French Institute in Paris. Pope Benedict was to celebrate later an outdoor Mass in Paris, his only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year. The French Institute is a French learned society, grouping five academies, the most famous of which is the Academie Francaise.
• Sept. 13: A faithful watches through binoculars the mass held by Pope Benedict XVI on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris. The mass is is Benedict's only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year.
• Sept. 13: Pope Benedict XVI arrives in his popemobile for an outdoors mass on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris. The mass is is Benedict's only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year.
• Sept. 13: Pope Benedict XVI arrives in his popemobile for an outdoors mass on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris. The mass is is Benedict's only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year.
• Sept. 13: People wait for the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI at an outdoors mass on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris, his only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year.
• Sept. 13: Priests holding their prayer books take part to an outdoors mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, unseen, on the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris. Tens of thousands of faithful have turned out for Pope Benedict XVI's outdoor Mass in Paris. The mass is is Benedict's only public appearance Saturday before he flies to Lourdes to make a pilgrimage to the shrine which draws millions of pilgrims each year.
• Sept. 13: Faithful attend to a candlelight procession in Paris. Pope Benedict XVI told a crowd of tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics in front of Notre Dame cathedral that they shouldn't fear spreading their faith. The pope embarked Friday on a four-day trip, his first to France as pontiff, that takes him from the presidential Elysee Palace to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes.
• Sept. 13: Priests, right, and faithful start a candlelight procession in front of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Pope Benedict XVI told the crowd of tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics that they shouldn't fear spreading their faith. The pope embarked Friday on a four-day trip, his first to France as pontiff, that takes him from the presidential Elysee Palace to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes.
• Sept. 13: Faithful start a candlelight procession in front of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, early Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Pope Pope Benedict XVI told the crowd of tens of thousands of young Roman Catholics that they shouldn't fear spreading their faith. The pope embarked Friday on a four-day trip, his first to France as pontiff, that takes him from the presidential Elysee Palace to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes.
• Sept. 13: Marie Duman, from France, attends a candlelight procession in Paris. Pope Benedict XVI urged Christians to make their voices heard in France and other countries that have strong traditions of secularism, saying that politics and religion must be open to each other. The pope embarked Friday on a four-day trip, his first to France as pontiff, that takes him from the presidential Elysee Palace to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes.
• Sept. 12: Pope Benedict XVI waves to wellwishers as he leaves the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris following a vespers service. Pope Benedict XVI urged Christians to make their voices heard in France and other countries that have strong traditions of secularism, saying Friday that politics and religion must be open to each other. The pope embarked Friday on a four-day trip, his first to France as pontiff, that takes him from the presidential Elysee Palace to the Roman Catholic shrine in Lourdes.