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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The Pontiff to the French bishops: ahead with listening, truth, justice, reparation and prevention. At Mass in the Prairie of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes present about 150 thousand faithful
The shrine of suffering, set among the Pyrenees and capable for over a century of attracting sick people from all over the world, embraces in its immense esplanade a crowd of 150,000 people....
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ORF.at NewsOn Sunday afternoon, Leo meets with the victims of sexual abuse by clergymen.
During his visit to France, Pope Leo held a Mass in the pilgrimage site of Lourdes with about 150,000 believers.
Sunday afternoon Pope Leo XIV wants to meet with the victims of sexual abuse by clergymen.
The Pope will continue the day with an encounter in the sanctuary with the sick and the staff of the assistance and volunteers and in the afternoon will pray the rosary and participate in the procession of the candles in the esplanade together with the pilgrims
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