Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate an outdoors mass in Lourdes, southwestern France, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Tens of thousands of people gathered in a muddy field to join the pontiff for a Sunday Mass marking the 150th anniversary of a peasant girl's religious visions in Lourdes, which millions of people visit each year, many praying for physical or spiritual healing. Benedict is making a three-day pilgrimage to the Lourdes sanctuary. (AP Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI)
Worshippers and faithful attend an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in Lourdes, southwestern France, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Tens of thousands of people gathered in a muddy field to join the pontiff for a Sunday Mass marking the 150th anniversary of a peasant girl's religious visions in Lourdes, which millions of people visit each year, many praying for physical or spiritual healing. Benedict is making a three-day pilgrimage to the Lourdes sanctuary. (AP Photo by BOB EDME)
Pope Benedict XVI, second right, celebrates an open-air Mass in Lourdes, southwestern France, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Tens of thousands of people gathered in a muddy field to join the pontiff for a Sunday Mass marking the 150th anniversary of a peasant girl's religious visions in Lourdes, which millions of people visit each year, many praying for physical or spiritual healing. Benedict is making a three-day pilgrimage to the Lourdes sanctuary. (AP Photo by BOB EDME)
Faithfuls attend mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at La Prairie in celebration of the 150th anniversary of when the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes on September 14, 2008. More than 150,000 people were expected to attend the open-air mass given by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday during his pilgrimage to the shrine town of Lourdes, amid heavy security. (AFP/Getty)
Worshippers attend Pope Benedict XVI's Mass celebrated at the Lourdes shrine, southwestern France, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. About 50,000 pilgrims, singing hymns gathered on a rain-soaked field known as the Lourdes prairie for the Mass marking the 150th anniversary of a peasant girl's religious visions. (AP/FRANCOIS MORI)
Not sure if these ladies are also members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
French former first lady Bernadette Chirac waves as she arrives to attend mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at La Prairie in Lourdes on September 14, 2008 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of when the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. More than 150,000 people were expected to attend the open-air mass given by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday during his pilgrimage to the shrine town of Lourdes, amid heavy security. (AFP/Getty)
Former first lady Bernadette Chirac (C) attends mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at La Prairie in Lourdes on September 14, 2008 in celebration of the 150th anniversary of when the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. More than 150,000 people were expected to attend the open-air mass given by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday during his pilgrimage to the shrine town of Lourdes, amid heavy security. (AFP/Getty)
I guess she is a member of the Order of Malta, but the cross is slightly different from that of the Order of Malta.
Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd from his popemobile after taking part in an eucharistic procession in Lourdes, southwestern France, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Benedict XVI celebrated Mass on Sunday at the Lourdes shrine renowned for miracles, telling tens of thousands of faithful they should hold onto hope in a world full of evil, torture, suffering and injustice. The pope is making a three-day pilgrimage to the sanctuary, which is visited each year by 6 million pilgrims. (AP Photo by ALESSANDRA TARANTINO)
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