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Brians' Prisoners Wait for the Pope with Emotion: "His Blessing Will Make the Sentence Shorter"

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The prisoners and prisoners of Brians 1 prison await with nerves, emotion and gratitude the arrival of Pope Leo XIV, who will visit them next Wednesday in a brief act where they expect him to offer them a blessing with which they feel their "shortest" sentences.""For me it is a blessing that I take for my whole life," he assured the media this Friday Josefina, one of the two inmates chosen to share his personal testimony with the pontiff, an opp…

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Josefina has been unable to sleep "too well" for the last two nights at Brians 1 Prison in Sant Esteve Sesrovires (Barcelona). "I am so...

·Madrid, Spain
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The prisoners and prisoners of Brians 1 prison await with nerves, emotion and gratitude the arrival of Pope Leo XIV, who will visit them next Wednesday in a brief act where they expect him to offer them a blessing with which they feel their "shortest" sentences.""For me it is a blessing that I take for my whole life," he assured the media this Friday Josefina, one of the two inmates chosen to share his personal testimony with the pontiff, an opp…

·Madrid, Spain
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The Vatican flag has been flying since Thursday in Brians 1, the prison of Sant Esteve Sesrovires that on Wednesday will receive Leon XIV, becoming the first Pope to visit a Spanish prison. A brigade of pallets works piece by piece, decentando the auditorium that will host the meeting of the Pontiff with eighty inmates and twenty prison officials.The walls look like an impolute white and smell of freshly painted.Keep reading...

·Granada, Spain
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The Vatican flag is flying, along with the Catalan and Spanish ones, outside Brians 1 prison (Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Barcelona), while inside some posters warn that railings have just been painted and a crew of workers work in a theater full of scaffolding and dust. That will be the scenario where one of the inmates in the center, Josefina, also a hairdresser in the prison’s women’s module, will address León XIV on Wednesday from 10.50 “very gr…

·Spain
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The first visit of a head of the Vatican to a Spanish prison makes the reality of the prisons visible and revolutionizes the inmates of the Barcelona centre of Brians 1 Jesús Bel, priest of the prison that the Pope will visit: “Neither the prison nor the punitive justice serve anything” Brians 1’s women’s module is “revolutionary” with the visit of Pope Leo XIV. Montserrat López, one of the two inmates who will speak before the pope on the first…

·Spain
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The first act of the second day of Pope Leon XIV in Barcelona will take you to visit Brians' prison 1. It will be the first time in history that a Supreme Pontiff appears in a prison in Spain, and the second visit to one of these institutions that Robert Prevost does in his first year of papacy --he has already visited Bata prison in Equatorial Guinea a few months ago. In the prison of Sant Esteve Sesrovires, where he will spend just over 20 min…

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Eldiario.es broke the news in Spain on Friday, June 5, 2026.
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