Pope Leads Open-Air Mass As Crowds Throng Madrid Streets
Organisers said 1.2 million attended as Leo urged Catholics to renew their faith during the procession.
- On Sunday, June 7, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and led the Corpus Christi procession at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid, drawing over 1.2 million attendees to the Eucharist celebration.
- While surveys indicate only about 17 to 19% of Spaniards are practicing Catholics, the massive turnout suggests popular religiosity remains a bulwark against growing secularization in Spain.
- During his homily, Leo urged Catholics to "remember" and "return" to their faith, describing the event as a school where believers become "builders of a new world."
- King Felipe and Queen Letizia joined the congregation, while priests, lay people, and children who received their first communion this year accompanied the Pope and the Eucharist through the streets.
- As the first major European destination of his pontificate, the visit aims to confirm believers in their faith, with attendee Ana Milagros noting the Pope "helps bring people together" amid polarization.
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More than a million faithful attend Corpus Christi Mass in Cibeles, and in the afternoon León XIV unites society, culture, and sport at Movistar Arena. León XIV unites the worlds of culture, economics, education, and sport in a moving event for the common good in Madrid.
Pope leads Open-Air Mass As Crowds Throng Madrid Streets
Madrid looked less like a capital city and more like a sea of faith on Sunday. As more than a million people flooded its streets for an open-air Mass led by Pope Leo XIV.But what turns a city into a pilgrimage ground overnight?Wearing the colours of the Vatican, crowds waved flags, threw flower petals, and shouted “long live the Pope” as he arrived in the popemobile at Plaza de Cibeles. Even Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia joined the co…
Pope Leo XIV presided over a massive celebration this Sunday in Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, where he called for a rediscovery of the spiritual richness of Spanish religious traditions such as…
Pope Leo tells secular Spain not to leave Catholic faith in the ‘museum of the past’
MADRID (RNS) – Before one of the largest crowds of his young pontificate, Pope Leo XIV used Spain’s Corpus Christi celebrations to call Catholics in an increasingly secular country back to a public, living faith.
The head of the Catholic Church drew crowds to the Spanish capital, where celebrations gathered between 500,000 and 1.2 million people this weekend.
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