Bichly and Tu Le of Cabramatta took their three children to the final World Youth Day Mass at Randwick Racecourse on Sunday.

Mrs Le held her nine-month-old daughter in the air as the Pontiff passed. A security guard took Tumi and two other babies to the Popemobile for a blessing and a kiss.

Tumi Le, of Cabramatta, was one of three babies blessed by the Pope on Sunday.

Tumi's mother Bichly Le was holding her in the air as the Pontiff passed, when a security guard took her to the Popemobile.

''I wasn't sure what [the guard] wanted to take Tumi for,'' Mrs Le said.

''We really didn't expect him to bring her to the Pope.

''After the Pope kissed her, people came along and took her photo, gave her rosary beads and tried to rub her because she touched the Pope.

''She never cried, she just held the beads and was very calm.''

Mrs Le said that her prayers to an ancestor, Saint Joseph Luu, lead to Tumi being picked out of the crowd.

''We went through a difficult time in the last few months and I've been praying to him,'' she said.

''This is what he gave us to make us stronger, I think.''

St Joseph Luu is Tumi's sixth great-grandfather. He was a catechist in Vietnam imprisoned and martyred in 1854 for refusing to renounce his faith.

Mrs Le, her husband, and children Phi, 4, Lyna, 2, and Tumi billeted nine Filipino pilgrims over the week-long Catholic celebration.

Abbotsbury resident Mitchell Grech, 14, was metres from Tumi as she was kissed by the Pope and snapped these photos of the moment.