Under an early summer sun in the Vatican City, Pope Francis appeared for his weekly audience, with the usual faithful clamouring to get close to him.
In a small courtyard not far away we found three families from a different faith who have already had their papal moment - one which has transformed their lives.
A week ago they were in a refugee detention centre in Greece. Now they have a new life in Rome after being chosen by the Pope to be relocated to Italy.
Outside the language centre where they have already begun their Italian lessons, we met two-year-old Riyad with his mother, Nour Essa, and father Hassan.
Nour Essa was a micro-biologist in Syria until the outbreak of the civil war. Hassan was a landscape gardener: normal people with normal lives, they told me.
The shock at being told they could leave the camp and go to Rome was overwhelming.
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