There seems to have been a awful lot of hugging in Assisi yesterday, even nose to nose encounters! 
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Oh to get that close to the Pope! Amazing photos..thankyou
Though the media might like to downplay it, this man is widely beloved already, and especially so by the kind of Catholics who the media particularly dislikes: the ones who live Catholicism as their identity. God bless and save Benedict XVI
The 'nose to nose encounter'is called a hongi. It is a traditional New Zealand formal greeting.
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