Third day of visit to France for Pope Leo XIV. Arriving in Lourdes last night, the sovereign pontiff presided over Sunday mass on the sanctuary meadow before meeting, at the end of the day, victims of sexual violence in the Church. Follow our live stream.
Leo XIV’s mass begins, 150,000 people present
Leo XIV celebrates a mass in the meadow of the sanctuary of Lourdes. This new office has a particularity: it will be multilingual. The first reading will be proclaimed in Italian, the second in Spanish, while the prayer intentions will be said in particular in French, Ukrainian, English, German, Dutch and Arabic, underlines the newspaper La Croix.
Léon XIV treats himself to a new walkabout in a popemobile
Leo XIV treats himself to a new walkabout in a popemobile, this time in Lourdes. The pope must celebrate a mass on the meadow of the Marian sanctuary in front of tens of thousands of faithful. Some 150,000 faithful are expected.
Like the previous days, he stopped several times to bless babies carried at arm’s length by the crowd.
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📸 In pictures – More and more faithful for the Pope’s mass in Lourdes
The faithful begin to gather in the meadow of the Notre-Dame sanctuary to attend the mass that the pope is to celebrate at 11 a.m.
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Leo XIV speaks before the Conference of Bishops of France
Leo XIV now gives a speech to the Conference of Bishops of France. This moment is not broadcast to the press.
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Pope Leo
Before speaking before the Conference of Bishops of France, Leo
The program of the day
– 9 a.m. – Meeting with the bishops of the French Episcopal Conference.
– 11 a.m. – Sunday mass on the meadow of the Lourdes sanctuary.
– 3:30 p.m. – Meeting with sick or disabled pilgrims at Accueil Notre-Dame.
– 4:45 p.m. – Meeting with the nuns of contemplative life at the Carmel of Lourdes monastery
– At a time to be specified – Private meeting with seven victims of sexual violence in the Church.
– 9 p.m. – Participation in the torchlight procession.
Hello everyone,
Welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the third day of Pope Leo XIV’s visit to France.
After two days in Paris where he attracted more than a million people, Leo XIV continues his visit to France on Sunday in Lourdes, with a new mass and a highly anticipated meeting with victims of sexual violence in the Church. The sovereign pontiff is eagerly awaited on this subject, especially since he has yet to say anything about it since his arrival on Friday, despite numerous interventions.
