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The Arrigoni bakery has made bread for the popes for almost a century, from rosetta rolls to wholewheat loaves but mass tourism has proved deadly and no prayers can save it now."The workers ate both the 'ciriola', that big, classic Roman loaf that hardly anyone makes anymore, and rosetta rolls," he told AFP.
"So for his whole papacy, which lasted almost 27 years, we gave him five 'ciriola' and five rosetta rolls."