Our Lady, Lourdes and the Cathedral of Metz: Places of the Pope's Visit
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From Paris to Metz, passing through Lourdes, the Pope's arrival in France, from Friday 25th to Monday 28th September, must attract a million visitors and dodge hotel reservations. However, pilgrims show less expense than the singer's fans.
Notre-Dame de Paris - The cathedral where Léon XIV will celebrate vespers for the clergy has experienced a record influx since its reopening in December 2024, five years after a fire that had ravaged it in April 2019. This high place of Catholicism, which houses the crown of thorns of Christ, is also the framework of major events in the history of France, such as Napoleon I's sacre in 1804. The previous Pope Francis had refused to come to Notre-…
INFOGRAPHIES - This visit, scheduled from Friday to Monday, is all the more expected as its predecessor, François, had not officially come to France. The organisation and security were a major challenge for the authorities.
With almost three times as large windows as the Cathedral of Chartres, this is already an announcement. The St. Stephen's Church in Metz is not called "Laternity of God" for nothing. Soon it will shine particularly brightly, for the Pope is coming.
From 25 to 28 September, Pope Leo XIV made the first state visit of a sovereign pontiff to France since Benedict XVI in 2008. On the program: a welcome to the Elysée, a giant mass place of Concorde expected by 600,000 people, a passage through Notre-Dame freshly reopened, a pilgrimage to Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées) marked by a closed meeting with victims of sexual violence in the Church, and a final stage in Metz (Moselle) for an interreligious di…
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