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Pope quickly draws 50,000 Twitter followers

July 04, 2011

When he made his historic first "tweet" last week, Pope Benedict XVI immediately drew more than 50,000 followers to the Vatican Twitter account.

Publicity surrounding the Pope's contribution helped to multiply the number of followers for the Vatican account, raising the number from just over 10,000 to about 65,000 in a matter of hours.

 

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter; Opt. Mem. of Our Lady of Fatima

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Today the Church celebrates an Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, which is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary following apparitions to three shepherd children — Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco — in Portugal in 1917. The message of Fatima includes a call to conversion of heart, repentance from sin and a…

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