A retired priest from the Diocese of Brooklyn has given the closing benediction at Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration ceremony today.
Wearing a red-and-gold-coloured stole, during his benediction Fr Frank Mann, a former priest at St Sebastian Catholic Church in Woodside, Queens, described the inauguration as a "pivotal moment in history".
He was invited to deliver his prayer at the inauguration after he and the president developed an unlikely friendship. A few years back, Fr Mann came across the Trump family gravesite in a cemetery in Queens, where the now 47th US president's grandfather, grandmother, mother, father and elder brother are all buried. Noticing it was slightly overgrown, he began caring for it and eventually sent Trump a photo.
