A papist-on-the-ground's pics of Pope Benedict at Mariazell

A classmate of mine from college is now living in Austria attending school at the International Theological Institute (where I studied for a semester in 2003). He was present during the Pope's recent visit to Mariazell and recently uploaded his pictures here. A sample:

I take this to be definitive proof that those vestments were just as ugly up close. Yikes.