Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a ...

Ballots are burned in the process, but the smoke seen by the world is created using another stove, the Vatican Information ...

Five days before cardinals gather for the conclave, firefighters on Friday installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel ...

The 'white smoke' represents the final moment of the Conclave. The act that marks the election of the new Pope. Vatican ...

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