How virus changed Vatican's Holy Week, Easter Sunday celebrations

Here is a timeline with videos showing the way COVID19 has affected the Vatican.

GOOD FRIDAY. Pope Francis presides over Good Friday's Way of the Cross at St. Peter's Square in The Vatican on April 10, 2020. Photo by Andrew Medichini/Pool/AFP

It added:"Fear and confusion in the face of a disease whose official death toll has soared past 100,000 – but whose real one is feared to be higher still – are reshaping society and transforming the way religion is observed."Ten days before the start of Holy Week, the holiest of Roman Catholic traditions, an unexpected event happened in the Vatican.in the vast Saint Peter's Square to bless Catholics around the world suffering under the coronavirus pandemic.

The"Urbi et Orbi" is normally delivered only on Christmas and Easter, and when a new pope is elected.Pope Francis called for courage in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as he delivered Palm Sunday Mass by livestream instead of before Saint Peter's Square crowds.

Their presence was a tribute to the victims of a disease that has officially claimed nearly 19,000 lives in surrounding Italy.

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