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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Aine Fox

Married couple say seeing Francis ‘significant’ having first met at papal event

Alice and Patrick Gavigan first met decades ago at another papal event (Family Handout/PA) - (PA Wire)

A couple celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary have told of the “significance” of being able to attend Pope Francis’s wake in Rome – having first met decades ago at another papal event.

Patrick and Alice Gavigan were among some 20,000 people paying their respects to Francis in St Peter’s Basilica on the first day of his lying-in-state.

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