Pope Francis will wash the
feet of 12 prison inmates on Thursday recalling Jesus's washing
the feet of his apostles at the Last Supper, the Vatican said.
The inmates, at Paliano prison south of Rome, will include
three women, a Muslim who is set to be baptised in June, and
Argentinian and an Albanian, it said.
The other six inmates are Italian, two of them lifers.
Paliano hosts a number of high-security Mafia offenders,
The ritual kicks off Francis's Easter duties which include
the Stations of the Cross around the Colosseum on Good Friday,
Easter vigil mass on Saturday in St Peter's, and the 'Urbi et
Orbi' (To the City and the World) blessing on Easter Sunday.
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