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

2021-12-08T06:41:29.948Z


At dawn with the firefighters to avoid crowds. Then to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (ANSA)


The Pope went this morning, at 6, in Piazza Mignanelli, adjacent to Piazza di Spagna in Rome, to pay homage to the Madonna on the occasion of the day of the Immaculate Conception.

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

He had already done this 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. The firefighters, immediately after the pope left the square, as has been the case since 1923, took the flowers, a gift from the pope, to the top of the monument dedicated to the immaculate conception. While it was night around, according to the Vatican Press Office, after placing a basket of white roses at the base of the column, the Pope stopped in prayer, asking Mary for the miracle of the cure for the many sick; healing, for peoples suffering severely from wars and the climate crisis; and of conversion, so that he may melt the heart of stone of those who build walls to ward off the pain of others.  

After leaving Piazza di Spagna at the end of the homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception, this morning Pope Francis went

to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore,

where he continued the prayer in front of the icon of Maria 'Salus Populi Romani.

Shortly after 7.00 he returned to the Vatican.

This was reported by the Press Office of the Holy See, which in recent days, in order to avoid gatherings, and the consequent risk of contagion from Covid-19, instead of the usual public homage to the Immaculate Conception, also on this December 8 the Pontiff would have carried out an act of private devotion, praying to Our Lady to protect the Romans, the city in which they live and the sick who need her maternal protection everywhere in the world. 

Source: ansa

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