The New York Times > International > International Special > Line of Pilgrims to View Pope Is Closed Because of Huge Crowds: "VATICAN CITY, April 6 - The streets around St. Peter's Basilica swelled Wednesday with an estimated one million pilgrims, nearly double the barely manageable number of the day before. The surge was so great that late on Wednesday night Italian officials closed down the line to view the body of Pope John Paul II."
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