This is kind of a cool story about the late Pontiff. According to this article
"Pope John Paul II made more than 100 clandestine trips to ski or hike in the Italian mountains and was rarely recognized by others on the slopes, his former secretary said."
...and no one recognized him. Except for one little boy.
One of the first people to recognize the pope was a young cross-country skier, a boy no more than 10 years old, who was lagging behind the rest of his family when he came upon the papal party. He asked them if they had seen his family go by, and one of the priests pointed to the trail.
At that moment, the pope arrived at the bottom of the slope.
The boy looked astonished, pointed to the pontiff and began yelling, "The pope! The pope!"
One of the pope's aides intervened quickly: "What are you saying, silly! You'd better think instead about hurrying up, you're going to lose your group."
The boy skied away, and the pope and his friends quickly returned to their car and headed for Rome before the word got out.
Carl Olson of Insight Scoop has thoughts (More Popish Trickery Revealed)
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