Now his holiness is right up there — with Willis Reed and the Hulkster!
Pope Francis’ visit to New York City and his Mass at Madison Square Garden were immortalized by the World’s Most Famous Arena on Monday with an exhibit chronicling last year’s famed trip.
Artifacts from the pontiff’s Big Apple tour comprise the 21st of MSG’s “Defining Moments” displays.
Francis will be on a concourse wall outside Section 113, sandwiched between tributes to Wrestlemania I from March 13, 1985 and the famed limping-off-the-bench Reed-inspired Game 7 NBA Finals win by the Knicks on May 8, 1970.
“It was a great day and I’m so glad that you call it a defining moment,” said New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is in one of the primary pictures of Francis, sitting behind his boss as a cart drove them to the MSG altar on Sept. 25, 2015.
Dolan and Harry Connick Jr., who performed at last year’s MSG Mass, were both on hand for Monday’s dedication.
Other pieces of the papal exhibit include the liturgy book used to celebrate Mass that trip to Cuba, New York and Philadelphia, tickets and the program printed for the MSG event and several press clippings.