St. Louis high school band gets surprise visit from the pope

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A group of 45 band students from a Jesuit high school in St. Louis didn’t know they’d get a surprise visit from Pope Francis when they recently performed at the Vatican.
The St. Louis University High School students had been on a musical trip in Italy since March 9 to celebrate the school’s bicentennial. The band was excited to perform Wednesday before thousands in St. Peter’s Square, when a Swiss Guard motioned them over to the steps of St. Peter&r