VATICAN CITY – A pair of white-coated doctors who care for coronavirus patients participated in a torch-lit Good Friday procession, watched over by Pope Francis and held in a hauntingly nearly empty St.
Peter's Square instead of at Rome's Colosseum because of the safety measures aimed at containing the virus' spread. Francis presided over the late-night ceremony from the steps outside St.
Peter’s Basilica as the procession circled 10 times around the square's central obelisk, slowly following a path marked by candles set on the square's cobblestones.
Besides the two doctors, who are part of the Vatican's health service, were a former prison inmate and the chaplain of prison in Padua, northern Italy, a uniformed penitentiary police officer