First-ever pilgrimage celebrates Pope Leo with Mass, visits to papal boyhood landmarks

Augustinians celebrate a year of the 'gift of Pope Leo' with special Mass

Pope Leo XIV's brother Augustinians and others from the Chicago-area looked back with gratitude on the past year since the election of one of their own at a special Mass May 8.

First-ever pilgrimage celebrates Pope Leo with Mass, visits to papal boyhood landmarks

At the pope's boyhood home, the final stop of the pilgrimage, the Midwest Augustinians blessed and hung a portrait of the pope in the living room.

Chicago pilgrimage celebrates Pope Leo with Mass, visits to papal boyhood landmarks

CHICAGO — On the first anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s election, a group promoting the Catholic faith in Chicago’s south suburbs led an inaugural pilgrimage to his boyhood home and the church he attended as a boy.The Pope Leo XIV American Legacy Foundation’s pilgrimage left downtown Chicago May 8 via shuttle bus and made its way to the first stop, Christ Our Savior Parish, known as “the de facto home parish” in South Holland, Illinois, of Pope Leo…