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A giddy Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV
The encounter was Leo XIV’s second with a music legend this week, following a concert by tenor Andrea Bocelli, officials said.
- Rock legend Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV at the Apostolic Palace on Friday, where Rev. Antonio Spadaro said the encounter between the two Chicago natives felt like a conversation between old friends.
- Spadaro, undersecretary in the Vatican's culture ministry, accompanied Smith to the audience. He described the long discussion as sharing memories woven from music, dreams, and hopes between two people discovering they were old friends.
- Smith has maintained a visible presence at the Vatican since meeting Pope Francis in 2013. She praised the late pontiff in a 2025 poem as 'humble yet strong,' writing that nature and poetry would miss their champion.
- The meeting followed Pope Leo's encounter with tenor Andrea Bocelli, who performed a concert in his honor on Wednesday near the Borgo Laudato in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. These high-profile encounters mark Leo's active cultural engagement.
- Earlier this year, Smith performed at the opening of the Vatican's pavilion at the Venice Biennale on May 8, the anniversary of Leo's election. Her ongoing artistic collaboration with the Vatican underscores her deepening spiritual connection.
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Patti Smith, 79 years old, met Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City on Friday (31). In a video released in the networks of the headquarters of the Catholic Church, she shows the singer, known as the godmother of punk, greeting the pontiff with a broad smile and a gesture answered by the pontiff with a sympathetic "How are you?" before the two of them fell into laughter. Even without declaring themselves Catholic, she wore a Franciscan cross during the a…
·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Although declared non-Catholic, Patti Smith admitted to feeling a deep closeness with Pope Francis, with whom he met in 2013. Now it was time to meet Pope Leo XIV: "It was amazing".
·Lisboa, Portugal
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The singer had met Pope Francis in 2013
·Milan, Italy
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