It was the year the Queen came to Armagh for a Royal Maundy Thursday service.

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Pope Francis has washed the feet of prisoners in a youth detention centre near Rome as part of the Maundy Thursday service.

BBC: Pope Francis washes prisoners' feet on Maundy Thursday

Every year the Queen visits a cathedral to make the presentation on Maundy Thursday in a ceremony that dates back to the 13th century.

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On Thursday, he washed the feet of prisoners in a youth detention centre near Rome as part of the Maundy Thursday service commemorating Christ's Last Supper.

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After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.

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