Paris set to welcome Pope Leo XIV for historic state visit

Pope Leo XIV is acceptable to observe a large nationalist Mass astatine Place de la Concorde and on the adjoining Champs-Élysées successful Paris on September 26 during his upcoming authorities sojourn to France.

The announcement was made on Friday by Laurent Ulrich.

The pontiff is expected to sojourn France from September 25 to 28, marking the archetypal authoritative authorities sojourn by a pope to the state successful astir 2 decades.

The Mass, scheduled for the aboriginal afternoon, is projected to gully astir 500,000 worshippers.

A abstracted younker gathering has besides been scheduled for September 25 at the Stade de France successful Saint-Denis.

Ulrich explained that the prime of venues was intended to bespeak some the value of the sojourn and the enthusiasm of the French radical successful welcoming the pope.

“I wanted to invited Pope Leo astatine venues and symbolic places successful Paris and France,” the archbishop said, adding that the locations would show “the joyousness of an full state and its superior successful coming retired to conscionable him.”

During the visit, Pope Leo XIV is besides expected to clasp talks with Emmanuel Macron successful Paris earlier travelling to Lourdes, ...