Sunday Angelus to be delivered on big screen as Vatican announces that events won’t be open for public
Vatican officials announced that major papal events typically open to the public, including the Sunday Angelus and Wednesday general audience, will be closed for at least the next week.
A statement from the Vatican press office, says that Pope Francis’s March 8 Sunday Angelus address and his March 11 general audience will be filmed and streamed from the library of the Vatican’s apostolic palace, rather than in St. Peter’s Square.
However, both events will be displayed on giant maxi-screens in the square for any pilgrims who wish to come and watch.
The announcement was made the day after the Vatican identified a patient diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus in an outpatient facility run by its Directorate of Health and Hygiene, which suspended its activities in order to sanitize the building.
