What to expect in Brazil (ongoing post including photos & video)

(this post is an alalgam of content gleaned from the PapaRatzingerForum for those especially interested in learning more about Pope Benedict's trip to Brazil.)

A few highlights of Pope Benedict's trip to Brazil:

• Pope Benedict will pray in Portuguese during his visit
• Mass attendance of up to two million persons
• Two pope mobiles and three helicopters on-call
• 3200 journalists will be covering the visit

Pictures related to this trip:

• San Paolo's downtown, population 8 million
• Beaches of Rio de Janeiro
• The basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida (outside) - it can hold 75k persons
• The basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida (altar) - "in the round" style...
• The basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida (back) - better sense of dimensions
• graphically-enhanced image of soccer stadium where Pope Benedict will speak to youth
• graphically-enhanced image of soccer stadium, visualized at night
• Pope Benedict's slippers
• commemorative Brazilian stamp

Embedded video for a computer-generated visualisation of the Pope's Mass at Aparacedia:

Additional multimedia/video content:

• An interactive map of the places Pope Benedict will visit is available here.
• Italian video coverage via SkyTV here.
• Brazilian video coverage via Globo here.