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At right, a woman holds up a picture of Pope Francis while others raise palms to be blessed during Palm Sunday Mass outside the Basilica of San Jose de Flores in Buenos Aires, Argentina…
Coadjutor Archbishop Edmundo Valenzuela of Asuncion, Paraguay, below, celebrates a Palm Sunday procession outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Asuncion. Also known as Passion Sunday, this first day of Holy Week commemorates Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem before His crucifixion.
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