History of the Popemobile: when He Was Born, Why He Blinded Himself and All the Models that the Popes Have Used

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Before there were carriages, mobile platforms, shoulders carried thrones and cars adapted almost in an impromptu way. The popemobile, as we know it now, was really born in the 20th century and changed greatly after the attack on John Paul II in 1981. There it was transformed forever. Because the papal vehicle is not simply an official car. It is a rather peculiar mixture of religious symbol, platform of public visibility and safety capsule of th…