VATICAN CITY (AP) — The exchange of gifts is a de rigueur part of every papal audience but Thursday’s presentation had an unusually loud element to it. A metal support holding up the top of President Barack Obama’s gift — a chest of seeds from the White House garden — twice crashed onto the marble floor of the pope’s library as reporters and photographers rushed to get into position to record the moment for posterity.

At first some in the room thought the pope’s gift to Obama, two bronze medallions, had fallen to the floor.