Pope Leo XIV's mass on the Champs-Élysées
A crowd of 700,000 faithful gathered for the papal visit
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Nearly 700,000 faithful gathered on the Champs-Élysées in Paris to attend the mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV, the high point of his visit to France marked by intense popular fervor.
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Pope Leo XIV makes an official visit to France, marked by several public events.
It is a polyphony of Alleluia and Gloria, of yellow and white, of broad smiles and brilliant looks. Families, couples, teenagers, believers and even a few non-believers. Babies, who will be presented to the Holy Father as he ascends the Champs-Élysées, for a blessing from his popemobile. “Today is a day of celebration!”, intones the choir as an entrance song. Great joy in the heart of God. Like an open-air nave, “the most beautiful avenue in the world”, dotted with giant screens, welcomed 700,000 jubilant faithful this Saturday afternoon for the great mass of Pope Leo XIV, the highlight of his visit to France.
Same smiles, same cheers, same indescribable jubilation: upon the arrival of Léon More than ever, as the sky is revealed from the first minutes of mass...
