Nearly half East Timor's population saw Pope Francis' Mass. Here are some other popular papal Masses
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FILE - Crowds attend the World Youth Day's closing Mass line the shore of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, on July 28, 2013. An estimated 3 million people poured onto the beach for the final Mass of Pope Francis' historic trip to his home continent, cheering the first Latin American pope in one of the biggest turnouts for a papal Mass in recent history. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)FILE - People attend the World Youth Day's closing Mass celebrated by Pope Francis on the Copacabana beachfront, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)FILE - Crowds line the Copacabana beachfront as they attend the World Youth Day's concluding Mass celebrated by Pope Francis, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 28, 2013. Francis wrapped up is historic trip to his home continent Sunday with a Mass that drew a reported 3 million people. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)FILE - Pope John Paul II. has his arms around the Primate of Poland, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, right, and the Bishop of Czestochowa, Stanislaw Barela, as he faces huge crowd of faithful outside the Jasna Gora monastery, Czestochowa, on June 4, 1979, where the Pontiff holds a pontifical mass on his third day of his nine-day-visit to his homeland Poland. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Pope John Paul II stands in his car as hundreds of thousands of people bid him farewell beneath the Jasna Gora monastery in Czestochowa, Poland, on June 6, 1979. The Pope was greeted by wildly enthusiastic crowds on his first visit to his homeland as leader of the Catholic faith. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Pope John Paul II. stands in open car as he greets cheering crowd of believers, on the third day of the Pontiff's historical nine-day-visit to his homeland Poland, June 4, 1979 at Czestochowa near the famous monastery Jasna Gora. (AP Photo, File)FILE - Young people wait for the arrival of Pope Francis in Santo Tomas University in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessadra Tarantino, File)FILE - Pope Francis, in the vehicle, waves to the faithful as he arrives at Rizal Park to celebrate his final Mass in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)FILE - Crowds cheer as Pope Francis passes by during his meeting with the youth at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Faithful gather at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu during Pope Francis' apostolic trip to Asia, in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Willy Kurniawan/Pool Photo via AP)FILE - Pilgrims and residents gather on Copacabana beach before the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)FILE - Pope John Paul II. waves to huge crowd of faithful downtown Wadowice, the hometown of the Pope he is visiting on June 7, 1979, for the first time he had been elected as Pope. It is the Pontiff's sixth day of his nine-day-visit to his homeland Poland. (AP Photo/POOL, File)FILE - Pope Francis on the popemobile, waves at worshipers at the Martyrs' Stadium in Kinshasa, Congo, on Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi, File)FILE - Worshippers cheer as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis at Rizal Park in Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)Faithful gather at the Esplanade of Taci Tolu during Pope Francis' apostolic trip to Asia, in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (Willy Kurniawan/Pool Photo via AP)FILE -Well-wishers wait for Pope Francis in Kinshasa, Congo, on Jan. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi, File)
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FILE - Crowds attend the World Youth Day's closing Mass line the shore of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, on July 28, 2013. An estimated 3 million people poured onto the beach for the final Mass of Pope Francis' historic trip to his home continent, cheering the first Latin American pope in one of the biggest turnouts for a papal Mass in recent history. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)