Counting international trips, that figure would climb to about 8 million, said the Italian Ansa agency.
The prefecture of the Papal Household on Dec. 30 released the data for Vatican events. It said that 2,823,500 people attended general audiences, liturgical celebrations, special audiences and the Angelus encounters.
These data include 410,300 who attended the 46 general audiences, and 1.05 million who attended papal liturgical celebrations.
