Capacity
The modern-Romanesque styled building has a full-seating capacity of 2,000, but as many as 11,000 people including standing can be inside during Masses. An estimated 120,000 devotees are currently affiliated with the shrine. Another focus point of attraction in the shrine is the Candelarium (commonly known as the Candle Chapel) featuring an overly-lifesized mosaic of the Virgin Mary and a second crucifix where votive candles are offered by the laity. Pope John Paul II visited the shrine in his Apostolic Papal Visit in 1981.
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Famous quotes containing the word capacity:
“What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)