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Italian cardinal Angelo Sodano (R) puts the Fisherman’s Ring, made of gold-plated silver, on a finger of Pope Francis during his grandiose inauguration mass on March 19, 2013 at the Vatican. Pope Francis swept into St Peter’s Square on Tuesday to greet throngs of pilgrims before a sumptuous ceremony in which Latin America’s first pontiff will receive the formal symbols of papal power. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI