Pope Francis was mobbed by a group of star-struck nuns during his visit to Naples cathedral, prompting a cardinal to exclaim: "They are going to eat him!"
The cloistered nuns, who usually observe the rules of papal enclosure and rarely leave their nunneries, were let out of their convents for the special occasion.
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