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Runners in the 13th Annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot around Vatican City on Nov. 24, 2022. / Aaron Salvan/PNAC Photo ServiceRome, Italy, Nov 24, 2022 / 07:30 am (CNA).American seminarians in Rome began Thanksgiving Day with a race around the world s smallest country.The 13th Annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot around Vatican City State kicked off with an early start at the Pontifical North American College on Nov. 24.More than 130 seminarians, priests, and Catholic college students gathered near the starting line at 5:30 a.m. with t-shirts proudly proclaiming "the world s only 5K to go around a sovereign nation."The race brought the runners up the Vatican Hill and along the outside of the centuries-old 39-foot walls that encircle the Vatican Gardens before crossing in front of St. Peter s Square ahead of the final stretch up the Janiculum Hill back to the college. In total, the runners ascended 262 feet in just over three miles.Deacon Matthew Schilmoeller from the diocese of Linco

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