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Pope Leo XIV leads Lourdes Rosary Procession

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Pope Leo XIV led tens of thousands of people in a candlelight Rosary procession 27 September in the Marian shrine of Lourdes, saying that he had come as “a pilgrim among pilgrims.”

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“We are gathered this evening to respond to the request that Our Lady addressed to the priests through St Bernadette: ‘People should come here in procession.’ How moving it is to see the faithful, from one generation to the next, respond with love and trust to the tender invitation of the Virgin Mary,” Pope Leo said.

“I give thanks to the Lord that I, too, may respond this evening to the call of our mother, becoming a pilgrim among pilgrims,” he added.

Holding a large candle in his right hand and a Rosary in his left, Pope Leo processed slowly behind an illuminated statue of the Virgin Mary through the crowd of pilgrims holding candles, as the five decades of the glorious mysteries of Rosary were prayed in multiple languages.

As the “Ave Maria” Lourdes hymn was sung between mysteries, all of the pilgrims in the square in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary lifted their candles high in the air, creating a sea of lights.

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