US EditionRome marks Feast of the Immaculate Conception
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By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV took part on Monday in a very Roman papal tradition: to pray for peace before a statue of the Virgin Mary near the Plaza de España on the day of the Immaculate Conception. The pontiff greeted thousands of sympathizers who challenged the cold to see the American pope on his first visit to the statue. They could see him pass in his papamobile through the historic centre of Rome, already decorated for Chr…
Pope Leo XIV visits the Piazza di Spagna for the first time for the traditional homage to the Virgin Mary
Pope Leo XIV laid a wreath of white flowers in the Spanish Steps at the statue of the Immaculate Conception. He joined in the celebration of the Marian feast celebrated by the church.
Following the deep-rooted papal tradition, Pope Leo XIV went to Rome on Monday, December 8, to pay homage to the Immaculate Conception, one of the most important festivities of Catholic dogma. The high pontiff arrived at Mignanelli Square, adjacent to the emblematic Plaza de España, where he blessed a bouquet of white flowers, adorned with a bow from the Vatican, which was deposited at the foot of the column holding the statue of the Virgin. Leo…
This year, the Pope's act of devotion to the statue of the Virgin in Piazza di Spagna, the epicenter of Rome's luxury, is renewed. This event seals the bond between Rome and its bishop. Leo XIV continues the tradition begun by John XXIII in 1958 and never interrupted. Never, not even during the years of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Pope Francis nevertheless chose to perform "privately," early in the morning, the act of veneration at the Marian mo…
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