Soulful songs, prayers below pope's hospital window
AFP, March, 2005
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ROME (AFP) — Polish pilgrims chanted prayers and sang hymns outside Rome's Gemelli hospital where Pope John Paul II was spending his seventh day recovering from throat surgery.
The fervent pilgrims, both Poles and Polish-Americans, kept up a cacophony of chanted prayers, hymns and slogans outside the hospital.
"We only have our prayers to bring," said a priest, Father Konrath, as the Polish-American Oginski Choir from Hempstead, New York, belted out the traditional Polish song "Sto Lat" whose lyrics include the line "may you live 100 years."
Another choir, from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, the United States' patronal church and preeminent Marian shrine, then took over with its own repertoire.
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"What we need is a miracle. I pray for a miracle every day. And God can do it," said Haitian-born American Marie-Denyse Romain, 65, from Virginia.
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