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Moment ring and seal used by Pope Francis are 'destroyed' by an unnamed female Vatican official, in a task usually reserved for the cardinal temporarily incharge following a papal death.

The plastic ring had cut deep into the seal's neck causing the skin to become infected A seal found with a plastic ring embedded in its neck had "one of the worst types of wound" seen by experts.