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Candles flicker through the night as Poland pays tribute to John Paul II
AFP, April, 2005
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KRAKOW, Poland, (AFP) — Candles flickered through the night around Poland as believers and non-believers paid tribute to their country's most loved and respected son, the late Pope John Paul II.
At Blonia esplanade, the huge field on the outer edge of the southern city of Krakow where the pope used to celebrate open-air masses for up to three million people during his visits to Poland, a sea of people converged on the balmy Sunday evening, candles in hand, to pay a moving and joyous homage to "their" pope.
At 9:37 pm (1937 GMT) precisely on Sunday -- 24 hours after the pope's death -- everyone raised their candles skyward, turning the esplanade into a sea of light.
In the early hours, groups of mainly young people were still in the field, singing hymns which were dear to the pope.
Candlelight also illuminated the archbishop's palace in ...
