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Camel gets up close and personal with Cardinal Dolan
Monday was hump day for Timothy Cardinal Dolan.
The Catholic leader oversaw the annual blessing of the animals for Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular living Nativity �which included a camel who got particularly friendly with the man of the cloth.
“The camel was behind [the cardinal] a couple of times and was nudging him with his nose,’�Joe Zwilling, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, told The Post.
“When you’re speaking and a camel starts to nibble at your ear, it can be a little … not what you normally expect. But [the cardinal] is perfectly at ease with the animals.
“He loves’�the blessing, the rep added of Dolan. “It’s something he looks forward to every year.’�/p>
Three camels, two sheep and a donkey were blessed in the ceremony, which occurred in front of the famed Manhattan site in Rockefeller Center and included four Rockettes.
The animals, which travel from a sanctuary by bus for shows, were marched from a side door on West 51st Street around to the front of Radio City for the ceremony, drawing several dozen tourists eager to snap photos of the unusual city sight.