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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
A Fast Track to Sainthood? Polish Pilgrims Insist on It
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
International Herald Tribune
Published: April 9, 2005
ATICAN CITY, April 8 - Many of the hundreds of thousands of Poles who converged on Rome this week had one more item left on their agenda when the funeral ended: They wanted to see Pope John Paul II beatified - immediately. Two hours after the ceremony, a ragtag crowd of thousands of Poles replaced the rows of silent priests at the front end of St. Peter's, where they lobbied loudly and exuberantly for their man.
Dozens of huge flags from Poland and the Solidarity labor union fluttered in the breeze. Hung from fishing poles and broomsticks, each bore the scrawled name of a hometown: Bialystock, Wadowice, Zakopane. The crowd held hands and swayed as they sang the pope's favorite songs, some of them hymns but most patriotic folk ballads.
Adam Jankowski, a student from Warsaw, outlined their demands: "He must be made a saint - and soon - or we will crash the Vatican."
A Time for Knickknacks
The funeral was over, the body in the ground. It was time for the selling of John Paul II to begin.
The street vendors and stores of Rome on Friday were a bazaar of John Paul II memorabilia and paraphernalia. There were John Paul II snow globes, T-shirts and teaspoons - and creepy 3-D portraits that looked like a mask of him.
Until this afternoon, the pope's death had been horrible for business, said Francesca Burchietti, who owns a religious-artifacts store a block from the Vatican.
The bedlam had scared off many tourists, she said, and most pilgrims had spent their week mourning the pope, often waiting in long lines that did not pass here. But on Friday, the cash register was ringing nonstop. It was clearly shopping time.
The most popular souvenirs were ones that had been recently made, bearing images of the pope in his last, ailing years, Ms. Burchietti said. There was a poster of the pope in his final year, cuddling a toddler, with the inscription "Don't Be Afraid." There were portraits and T-shirts bearing his face, his signature and some of his last words.
Emilio Monaco, a T-shirt vendor, said that at the last soccer championships his Roma T-shirts sold for 15 euros, about $20 at current rates. "We worked like crazy and made tons of cash," he said. "But today we're in mourning. And at 5 euros we're not speculating on grief."
Still Worth It
Imagine spending piles of money and days of your time to get a ticket to a once-in-a-lifetime performance, and then not getting in to see the show. That is what happened to hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who came to Rome this week.
Maureen McNally and Jacqueline Marsden, a mother and daughter from Manchester, England, spent $1,000 each on plane tickets to Rome, but arrived too late to view the pope's body. "We tried to sneak in behind two priests and we almost made it," Ms. Marsden said, but they were caught. Nor could they get near St. Peter's for the funeral.
But Ms. McNally was unruffled. "I wouldn't have missed this for the world, to be nearby, at least, here in Rome," she said. "I don't think we'll see another pope like him again."
Heading Home in the Rain
At 5 p.m. it started raining, after six days of unbroken spectacular weather. The pope's life, and the ceremonies to honor it, had really ended.
Mourners began moving out, past thousands of discarded water bottles and scraps of cardboard that had served as mattresses. "Now we're on the job," said Sandro Grassi, a sanitation worker. "It's been kind of like a rock concert, except it's been endless since Wednesday."
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