"It's a shock, saying that he was out yesterday for Easter": from Our Lady to Corsica, emotion after the death of the Pope

The memory of Pope Francis was greeted on this Easter Monday throughout the country. We were, with the faithful, in front of Notre-Dame de Paris, but also at the Basilica of Argenteuil (Val-d的Oise), at the pilgrimage of Taizé (Saône-et-Loire) and in Corsica. Testimonials.

Pope Francis died at 88 years of age, Monday 21 April, on Easter Monday. In 12 years of pontificate, France was the country that received the Pope's most visits, three in total. The last, which is also his last trip outside Italy, had been held in Corsica on 15 December 2024.

His last trip, on 15 December on the island of Corsica, sums up these complexities alone: this was the third time that the Pope had visited France, which thus became the country that had received the most visits of Francis, in 12 years of pontificate. But the pope had refused to surrender, a sema

The pope visited France three times during his 12 years of pontificate. In twelve years of pontificate, Pope Francis died on Monday, made three trips to France: to Strasbourg in 2014,

He came to Corsica last December. It was the 15th. A bright day in the heart of winter, bathed in popular fervour and simple emotion. A few months later, Pope Francis passed away in Rome, closing a pontificate marked by attention to the margins, to the forgotten, to the peripheries. And in Corsica, this visit now resonates like a spiritual will. A meaningful parenthesis This was not a visit like the others. It was not a protocolal displacement, …