Live stream and social communication technology for 27 April Canonization
27 April 2014 – Pope John Paul II and John XXIII Canonization
In our previous article about canonization, we gave you advance notice of the date and some details about this big worldwide event. Now, while millions of pilgrims are expected to attend the Catholic Church’s first-ever double canonization at the end of this month, the Vatican is preparing its most ambitious TV and social media campaign for the millions who don’t make it to Rome.
City officials are expecting more than 5 million people to attend the ceremony when Pope Francis declares his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII saints in St Peter’s Square on April 27.
For the first time viewers will be able to watch the historic event live in 3D movie theaters in 20 countries across North and South America and Europe through a deal between Vatican TV and Sky TV network, Sony and other partners.
The Vatican’s television unit CTV will produce the event in 3D and it will be screened in more than 600 movie theaters worldwide. Admission will be free.
Pope John Paul II and John XXIII Canonization – Live stream and social communication technology
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, said the communications technology being used offers a “great opportunity for relationship, knowledge, participation, an opportunity to live history.”
But the Vatican’s approach to this major event is more comprehensive than simply TV or 3D cinema screens as it prepares for an influx of the world’s media and also creates a multifaceted “digital platform” in several languages.
A website — 2popesaints.org — is under construction and will be available in five languages and the Vatican is also setting up Twitter accounts, offering a smartphone app, Facebook page and a YouTube channel. Other social media sites, including Instagram and Storify, will also be used to communicate the event to young people around the world.
Vatican initiative is really praiseworthy and in line with the times. It will help to bring the emotion of the event to all of those many millions of people of the world who want to physically be there, but can’t. The goal of this technology is to try to replicate the experience of being in St. Peter’s Square.
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But if you are able to come in Italy and live in the flesh this great experience, you definitely should.
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