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More than 1 million join Pope for Sunday Mass
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-21 17:21

As dawn broke, pilgrims rustled in their sleeping bags and clenched their blankets tighter. Volunteers buzzed across the Marienfeld, clutching gray garbage bags and directing new arrivals who came to take part in the concluding mass by the pope. The skies above were gray with clouds threatening rain.

Benedict energized the crowd Saturday night in a vigil service where he highlighted the need for Christians to embrace their religion.

"It is not ideologies that save the world, but only a return to the living God, our creator, the guarantor of our freedom, the guarantor of what is really good and true," the pontiff told the pilgrims.


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