And this beauty brings some repose against a constant background of automobile horns, screeching tires and the putt putt of the daredevil moped drivers. After two full days, we understand the lira and its US equivalent. We call or flag our own taxis now and we find our way, with relative ease, down into Vatican City. In this city of contrasts, the dividing lines are less clear. Vatican City becomes Rome in a dividing area of traffic barricades.
Technology meets ancient Rome with a click of the mouse button at an E-mail cafe.
Young and older, they come to Rome and to Vatican City. We come to ready ourselves for this gigantic event where every photo opportunity lasts but a second and every image, sight and sound begs to be saved. We walk the square and test the light and crane our necks to see where the best sight line could be. We question what will happen when this near empty square will contain the thousands of pilgrims who with probably equal zeal, will shout in praise of God's goodness. Sr. Odette St. Pierre, the vice postulator for the Beatification process.