Virtually all plane and train tickets from Germany to Rome are sold out.
The official German delegation will leave by plane on Saturday. It will include German President Horst Köhler, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Interior Minister Otto Schily.
Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, revealed that on Monday morning the new Pope, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, will receive the German pilgrims in Paul VI Hall.
