Sistine celebration
With Michelangelo's cleaned and brightened blue sky of The Last Judgement behind him, the Pope celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel to mark the completion of 14 years of restoration of the artist's frescoes on the ceiling and altar wall, AP reports from Rome.
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