This Sunday, St. Peter's Square will regain its true face.
The heart of Rome will be smiling, bathed in light and crowded with colorful pilgrims from all over the world to witness the canonization of ten figures of the Catholic Church, the best known of which is the Frenchman Charles de Foucauld.
At 10 a.m., the mass will be broadcast on France 2 and KTO.
It is not a catch-up ceremony but the high number of canonized comes from the fact that no gathering of this magnitude has been able to take place since October 2019 due to the global pandemic.
Charles de Foucauld, for example, should have been canonized in the fall of 2021. Everything was ready for that.
In such a context, this "resumption" under the sign of holiness promises to be a feast for the Catholic Church.
It will be presided over, except for a last-minute incident, by Pope Francis, 85, immobilized by a recalcitrant knee that he is treating with vigor in the impatience to regain use.
Moreover, cutting short at…
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