Almost twenty-five years later, Pope Paul the Third asked Michelangelo to paint the wall of the Sistine Chapel above the altar.

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Francis is the third pope to visit Cuba, after St.

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Benedict was the third pope to address the General Assembly.

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Cardinal Turkson would be the third African pope and the first since Gelasius I in the fifth century.

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