Buy yourself a Bishop's mitre

at the bakery in the Pope's home town of Marktl. You can also use it as a bag if you want.

Not forgetting there are also Papal chocs and candles (which come in all sizes and forms)

Savour the tiramisu (literally from Italian, Pick me up) as a Papal gateau.


If you don't want any of these, there is also the Marktl Umbrella, the sweet Episcopal Headgear, the Papal Beer, the Marktl Pilgrims Stick, the model of the house where the Pope was born and last but no means least Papal Wine.

Not for nothing has the German word for marketing = vermarktung been changed to verMARKTLung. The whole operation stands in stark contrast to the piety of much of the merchandise in pilgrimage shrines such as Lourdes.



Armies of statues can wait until after canonisation.