Pope Benedict XVI resignation

Lightning strikes in the Vatican after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI

The lightning that struck the dome of St. Peter's Basilica Vatican hours after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation as Pope went around the world, becoming one of the most published today by the press.

The capture, work of photographer Alessandro di Meo, has also led to all sorts of speculation and comments on social networks, where some members raised the possibility that lightning is the result of some kind of divine plan, after the first resignation a head of the Catholic Church in recent centuries occurred.

In the picture you can see perfectly as lightning that illuminates the sky cloudy and dark as night closed in Rome, falls on the tip of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, a strange and curious coincidence that had the major success of the photographer when capturing the moment.

Many are the circumstances involving a mystery to this photograph and atmospheric phenomenon that the stars, which may contribute to it is included in the annals of history as one day for the tiny Vatican state, whose chief announced yesterday in Latin that will office on February 28.

This image was known only hours after the announcement by Benedict XVI shortly before noon with cardinals in a consistory at the Vatican and the dean's own College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano, made public the first official reaction to the Catholic Church after learning the news.

"It was like a bolt open," said Sodano, the first to confirm an ad with these words that many could not believe at first, and not just for the rarity, but also because of the difficulties of understanding by the fact it was pronounced by the Pope in a dead language such as Latin.

The truth is that after a somewhat clouded yesterday morning and intermittent rain on Rome, the sky ended the evening closed, to make way for a storm (of dimensions that some described as "almost biblical"), with strong unit electrical and thunder raged on the Italian capital and the neighboring State of the Vatican for a few hours.

In the event, capturing and Di Meo that will go down as one of the most significant images and mysterious-if not most-of the day when the German pope announced his resignation as head of the Catholic Church to forces lacking.

The image was taken by Italian photographer Alessandro Di Meo. Although many question their origin, others categorized as a "divine message".

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