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Diver, dreamer, immigrant: Now he'll speak before the pope

Cesar Viveros used to spend stormy days on the Gulf of Mexico on the barge where he worked, a young oil-rig diver with time on his hands and a dreamy horizon on his mind.

Cesar Viveros won the World Meeting of Families' competition to design and oversee painting of a mural in tribute to the papal visit. It is a project of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program.
Cesar Viveros won the World Meeting of Families' competition to design and oversee painting of a mural in tribute to the papal visit. It is a project of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program.Read moreALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff Photographer
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