ROME: Pope Francis has become the latest figure in Rome’s wax museum with a statue depicting the pontiff smiling in the iconic moment when he appeared on the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica after his election.

Visitors have been asking for months when the Francis statue would go on dis-play but the museum’s director, Fernando Canini, said that he had waited for an official verbal go-ahead from the Vatican.

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