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| | Global Catholic News - Holy Father's Admirers Crowd the Gemelli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | VATICAN CITY, FEB. 25, 2005 (Zenit.org).- As John Paul II recovers from tracheotomy surgery, the Gemelli Polyclinic has become the meeting place of the famous and not-so-famous, all wanting to give the Pope their best wishes. |
 | | Some of the visitors are the Pope's closest aides: Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state; Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope's vicar for Rome; Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State. |
 | | Beginning tonight, at the initiative of the Pastoral Center of Sacred Heart University, the students of the Gemelli faculty of medicine and surgery, with the help of spiritual assistants, will hold a prayer vigil for the Holy Father in each of the six student residences. |
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