Here are some images from the Vespers (click to enlarge). The Pope entering the chapel:
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Address of Cardinal Lajolo, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State:
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Michelangelo's Conversion of Paul:
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A detail of the Conversion of Paul - the man with the blue turban is a self-portrait of Michelangelo:
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A very welcome detail of the restoration of the Pauline Chapel - the communion rails (the original ones from the Pontificate of Leo XIII) were put back in (unfortunately this is the best capture of them I was able to make):
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Michelangelo's other great fresco in the Pauline Chapel - the Crucifixion of Peter:
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Note in the background that a confessional has been installed:
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Incensation of the altar at the Magnificat:
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Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament:
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Benediction:
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The Divine Praises:
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The deacon reposes the Sanctissimum. Notice the nice tabernacle veil:
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The Holy Father and the ministers genuflecting before the Lord in the tabernacle before leaving the chapel - a sight one doesn't see too often, since the Pope does not normally celebrate at altars where the Blessed Sacrament is present:
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And to finish, a nice shot of the procession with the Holy Father leaving the Paolina:
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