For the Pope the Carabinieri band played the Inno Pontificio (the national anthem of the Vatican City State) by the French composer Charles Gounod (who died in 1893).
If you have never heard this lovely hymn, then see if you can hear it somewhere on the internet!
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J.P. Sonnen is an author, history docent, educator and travel writer. His graduate degrees are from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy.
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