Pope Francis prayed this Wednesday in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, to entrust his next trip to Belgium in Luxembourg, which the Holy Father will make from September 26 to 29.
The Vatican Press Office reported that “this afternoon, Wednesday, September 25, Pope Francis addressed the Basilica of Saint Mary Major.”
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There, the text of the Holy See continues, “he approached in prayer, as usual, before the icon of the Virgin Salvation of the Roman People (Protector of the Roman people), entrusting her with her next apostolic trip to Luxembourg and Belgium. When he finished he returned to the Vatican.
The Pontiff has the custom of praying before this Marian icon before beginning and after concluding each of his international trips.
From Thursday, September 26 to Sunday, September 29, Pope Francis will be in the heart of Europe to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Catholic universities of Leuven and Leuven la Neuve.
Perhaps the main event of this apostolic journey of Pope Francis will be the beatification of Ana de Jesús, a Discalced Carmelite born in Spain and considered the “right hand” of Saint Teresa of Ávila, on Sunday, September 29 in Brussels, capital of Belgium.
Ana Lobera Torres, the given name of Ana de Jesús, will be elevated to the altars at the Balduino stadium in the capital of Belgium, the country where the future Spanish blessed died.
During the weekend, Pope Francis will also hold a meeting with a group of refugees and will also hear several testimonies from victims of abuse within the Church.
Walter Sanchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.