08 December, 12:03

8 December: Pope's homage to the Madonna in Piazza di Spagna

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(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 08 - The Pope went this morning, at 6, in Piazza Mignanelli, adjacent to Piazza di Spagna in Rome, to pay homage to Our Lady on the occasion of the day of the Immaculate Conception.

A tradition that he did not want to disregard but which, to avoid gatherings, he chose to do at this hour and in solitude and not in the afternoon.

He had already done so last year.

The Pontiff stayed to pray in silence and in private under the column of the Immaculate Conception where he also placed a basket of flowers that the firefighters placed at the foot of the monument.

Immediately after the pope left the square, as has been the case since 1923, the firefighters took the flowers, a gift from the pope, to the top of the monument dedicated to the immaculate conception.

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