The boys and girl from the De La Salle Tour of Duty in Italy arrived at the holiest place in the world for Christians and Catholics . . . the Vatican. The World's Smallest Country was swarmed with thousands of tourists, most of them Americans, but once the wait to enter the Vatican's galleries was over we saw trackloads of fine art, mountains of statues and the area of Melbourne painted in frescos. But the most beautiful sites in the Vatican were artforms of a diffrent kind. It was the first time i'd really admired something religious. The places i am talking about are the Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's Basillica. When you walk into the Chapel you are told a few things that you need to do: be quiet, silence, don't talk loudly, don't take
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