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Netherlands Sends a Sea of Flowers to Vatican City for Easter Celebration

Thousands of blessed flowers are traveling from Keukenhof to Rome to be part of the Easter celebrations at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Approximately 7,000 flowers will cover the 1,600 km journey from the Netherlands, having first been blessed at Keukenhof Lisse by Bishop Hans van den Hende of Rotterdam, who also serves as the president of the Dutch Bishops’ Conference, as part of a longstanding tradition.

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Easter Flowers to the Vatican for 40 Years: Pope Leo Receives Them Too.

The flowers that will grace Easter in the Vatican this weekend have been blessed at the Keukenhof in Lisse. The question this coming weekend is whether Pope Leo XIV will adopt the winged words of his predecessors during his first Easter Mass as Pope: "Thank you for those flowers." The shipment was blessed at the Keukenhof by the Bishop of Rotterdam, Van den Hende, chairman of the Dutch Bishops' Conference. This year, a total of about ten thousan…

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