Popes are used to receiving all types of visitors from heads of states to celebrities and even the kind that bleat. Pope Francis observed the feast of St. Agnes on Thursday with the time-honored custom of the blessing of lambs, whose wool will be used to make stoles worn by archbishops and known as palliums.

Pope blessing lambs
Popes are used to receiving all types of visitors from heads of states to celebrities and even the kind that bleat. Pope Francis observed the feast of St. Agnes on Thursday with the time-honored custom of the blessing of lambs, whose wool will be used to make stoles worn by archbishops and known as palliums.