Pope Leo Heads to Lourdes: What to Know About One of Catholicism’s Most Famous Pilgrimage Sites – WTOP News
- On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV arrives at Tarbes airport for a four-day apostolic journey to France, marking the first official papal state visit to the country in 18 years.
- Leo will meet seven sexual abuse survivors during the visit, addressing a crisis highlighted by a 2021 report estimating 330,000 children were abused by French church personnel over 70 years.
- Church officials are covering mosaics by former Jesuit artist Marko Ivan Rupnik at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, who faces an ongoing Vatican trial for alleged abuse.
- Surging demand for accommodation has triggered extreme prices, with some hoteliers charging more than $2,300 per night during Leo's visit to the pilgrimage site.
- Renowned as the fourth most visited Catholic pilgrimage site globally, Lourdes remains central to believers since the Catholic Church officially validated 72 miraculous healings following Bernadette Soubirous's visions in 1862.
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Lourdes (France)/Paris, 27 Sep (EFE).- Some 150,000 faithful attend the Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday in the esplanade of the Marian shrine of Lourdes, in southwestern France, on the third day of the Holy Father’s visit to that country. This is the maximum capacity that can accommodate [...] The entry Some 150,000 faithful attend the Pope’s Mass in Lourdes was first published in HolaNews.
"In recent years, you have faced with determination the painful scourge of child abuse committed by members of the clergy or in the ecclesial field. (ANSA)
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Pope Leo waved at believers on his way to mass on Sunday in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes where he is to meet victims of clerical sex abuse on a third day of an official visit to France. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is on a four-day trip to France, a secular country with deep Catholic roots, marking the first official papal visit there in nearly two decades. The first US pontiff is expected to meet privately with seven…
Leo in the Marian shrine meets the French bishops. The meeting with seven survivors and the case of the covered mosaics of Rupnik
After two days in Paris, where he attracted more than 800,000 people during a giant mass on the Place de la Concorde, Léon XIV continued his visit to France. The sovereign pontiff is in Lourdes this Sunday with a new mass on the program and a long-awaited appointment with victims of sexual violence in the Church.
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