Half a million pilgrims in St. Peter's Square; some 300,000 in the streets adjacent to the canonization of Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII – these are some of the details released by the Vatican City press, indicating that the measure of a mass phenomenon is resistant to any recession and that the charisma of Pope Francis is leading to an unprecedented and highly-significant number of incoming visitors to Italy.

Arrivals from emerging economies in South America have strongly increased, whose Catholic communities share the same culture with the Argentine Pope Francesco of Italian origin.

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