LOOK: Lightning Strikes St. Peter's Basilica After Pope Resigns
Lightning strikes St Peter's dome at the Vatican on February 11, 2013. "Hours after Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by announcing he would resign at the end of the month, a blinding shaft of lightning shot down from the heavens and struck the rod atop the white cross on St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.AFP photographer Filippo Monteforte – his camera already trained on the Basilica’s cupola – pushed the button that yielded the image."