ITALY-POPE-STATUE

A statue depicting Pope Francis in a small field of potatoes -to symbolise the Italian Piemont region, where the Bergoglio family comes from- is displayed in Cicciano, a small village in southern Italy on May 20, 2013. The statue was shown the day before during the local festival and the inhabitants want to bring it to Pope Francis at the Vatican in June. AFP PHOTO/MARIO LAPORTA