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Pastoral visits of Pope Francis. This is a list of pastoral visits of Pope Francis.His visit to the Philippines in January 2015 included the largest papal event in history with around 6–7 million attendees in his final Mass at Manila, surpassing the then-largest papal event at World Youth Day 1995 in the same venue twenty years earlier.
Pope Benedict XVI photographed during a Papal Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in 2013. A Papal Mass is the Solemn Pontifical High Mass celebrated by the Pope.It is celebrated on such occasions as a papal coronation, an ex cathedra pronouncement, the canonization of a saint, on Easter or Christmas or other major feast days.
In addition to assisting the pope at sacred functions, the Papal Master of Ceremonies assists cardinals on various occasions: during consistories, when a cardinal takes possession of his titular church, and during solemn celebrations of Mass or other important religious services. When a cardinal is created at a consistory, the Master of Papal ...
Watch as Pope Francis takes part in Easter Mass at the Vatican on Sunday 9 April.. Holy Week, as it is known, includes a busy schedule of rituals and ceremonies that can be physically exhausting ...
A Pontifical High Mass, also called Solemn Pontifical Mass, is a Solemn or High Mass celebrated by a bishop using certain prescribed ceremonies. Although in modern English the word pontifical is almost exclusively associated with the pope , any bishop may be properly called a pontiff .
Local authorities estimate that a crowd of 600,000 gathered for the pope’s Mass, the Vatican told reporters. ... At the conclusion of the Mass, the pope addressed the crowd in Spanish with a ...
Earlier on Sunday morning, the Vatican said that the pope had a peaceful night and took part in Holy Mass. Vatican sources also said he followed his usual routine of having coffee and reading the ...
During a 21 March mass, the pope urged Catholics to reach out and convert believers in sorcery. [29] During a youth event that day, two women were crushed to death in a stampede. [30] Jordan, Israel, and Palestine (8–15 May 2009) The pope arrived in Amman, Jordan on 8 May, embarking on his tour of Jordan, Israel, and Palestine. [31]