Caption: Unprecedented Christmas midnight mass conducted by Pope Pius XII fr. the high altar covered by the Bernini canopy for a huge crowd of worshipers: the first time since Charlemagne's coronation that a Pope has said Midnight Mass at St. Peter's Cathedral.Date taken: December 1944
Photographer:Margaret Bourke-White
UPDATE: Thanks to Bob Meade for giving me a link to a shot that emphasizes the Bernini canopy.
It's even more impressive when seen full size.
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One of the other photographs in this series has a better view of the Bernini canopy:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=midnight+mass+1944+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmidnight%2Bmass%2B1944%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den&imgurl=0912bdaa13641267
I can't work out how to do a better direct URL link to the images in the Life archive, so let's see if that one gets you there.
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