On Saturday evening Pope Francis will celebrate the main Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's Basilica.

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Holy Week tourists too excited to sleep after Saturday night's Easter Vigil mass ends, at around 2 am, could stay up another five hours or so for more revelry the morning of Easter Sunday.

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For Brother James, who comes from Nashville, Tennessee, this sweltering vigil is a bizarre way to be spending the week before Orthodox Easter a time of long, rather beautiful, services in which worshippers compare themselves to wedding guests awaiting the arrival of a beloved groom.

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