By John Phipps
On October 10th 2020, hundreds of people sitting in the Basilica of St Francis at Assisi watched as invisible strings tugged a scalloped silver curtain down from the enormous portrait it had been concealing. Smiling out was a teenage boy in a polo shirt, his dark tousled hair outlined by a faint glow against the heavenly blue sky.
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