Sentence examples for vatican visit from inspiring English sources

In her role as head of the Church of England, the queen wore a much more demure full-length black lace Hartnell dress, with matching veil, to see Pope John XXIII at the Vatican during a state visit to Italy in 1961 -- the first Vatican visit by a reigning British sovereign since 1923.

Castro's Vatican visit, announced only on Tuesday, follows a visit to Russia, where the Cuban leader attended a grandiose second world war victory parade on Saturday.

The "Free Melania" trope peaked somewhere between the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape — after which she wore a so-called pussy-bow blouse to a debate — and her Vatican visit, where her widow's attire prompted jokes about dressing for the job you want.

Sanders's Vatican visit, combined with the pope's recent rebuke of Donald Trump, leaves no question about whom the Latin American pontiff prefers in the American presidential contest.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera ahead of his Vatican visit, Putin rejected criticism over Ukraine, and said the deterioration of relations with the West is "not our choice".

But friendly ties advanced rapidly beginning in the early 1990s, when then-President Fidel Castro relaxed rules on religion by changing the country from being officially atheist to secular, and loosened restrictions on churches after a 1996 Vatican visit with John Paul II.

March 28 , 2013- Pope Francis Washes Feet of Inmates A mere two weeks after he was elected, Pope Francis left the walls of the Vatican to visit a juvenile detention center where he washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners incarcerated in Rome as part of the traditional Holy Thursday rite.

Mr. Sarkozy began his day at the Vatican for a visit with Benedict.

The pope is head of their church too, and there are married quarters at the Vatican when they visit.

His decision to step out of his white, open-sided popemobile and approach it – just days after the Vatican insisted his visit would not be controversial – was a surprise, not least for members of his own entourage.

In his 20 months in the Vatican, the Strasbourg visit was only Francis's second trip in Europe outside Italy after he went to Albania, one of Europe's smallest and poorest countries.