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Bob Dylan meets Pope Leo XIV, 29 years after his encounter with John Paul II

The Pope gave the singer a rosary during a brief meeting at the Apostolic Palace. Dylan previously met Pope St John Paul II in Bologna in 1997, when he performed at the National Eucharistic Congress

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