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Pope Leo XIV to Carry Cross at All 14 Stations of Colosseum Way of the Cross on Good Frida
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Pope Leo XIV to carry cross at all 14 stations of Colosseum Way of the Cross on Good Frida
(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will carry the cross himself through all 14 stations of the Way of the Cross at Rome’s Colosseum on the first Good Friday of his pontificate. It will be the first time that a pope has carried the cross for every station in the Via Crucis since the tradition was revived at the site more than six decades ago. The 70-year-old pope’s predecessors Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II carried the cross only at the opening a…
On Good Friday, the observers gathered near the Colosseum will witness a unique event. Pope Leo XIV will personally lead the Stations of the Cross, carrying the cross through all fourteen stations. This will be his first Good Friday ceremony as head of the Catholic Church.
Pope Leo XIV will carry the cross himself in his first viacrucis on Good Friday at the Colosseum of Rome, where the meditations that will inspire the celebration have been written by a friar of the Custody of the Holy Land. The Pope himself, as Vatican sources advance this Tuesday, 31 March, commissioned Father Francesco Patton, former Custos of the Holy Land, to elaborate the texts that will be read along the viacrucis, inspired by Jesus’ journ…
RADOR RADIO ROMANIA (March 31st) – According to the Vatican Press Office, in the Great Vineyard, on April 3, Pope Leon of XIV will carry the cross all the way through the Cross Road to Colosseum. The meditations will be conducted by the French parents Francesco Patton, who was the guardian of the Holy Land between 2016 and 2025, before the parents of Francesco Ielpo. Joia [...]
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