Some 1,300,000 people have already crossed the Holy Gate of the Basilica of San Pedro

At 7:00 p.m. on December 24, the Pope presided over a mass in the Plaza de San Pedro and then proceeded to the opening rite of the Holy Door, which only opens in each jubilee, every 25 years or in Extraordinary Jubilee Calls.

Since then, some 1,300,000 people have crossed it, according to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, proprephic of the Dicastery for Evangelization, a section for the fundamental issues of evangelization in the world, in the wheel of the submission of the jubilee of the armed forces the armed forces the armed forces the Friday, February 7 at the Vatican.

In any case, he warned that the figures “are not a criterion of validity for the success of the jubilee.”

“What counts is what carries in the heart of people,” he emphasized.

The holy doors, as is tradition, are only in the four papal basilicas of Rome – San Pedro del Vaticano, San Juan de Letrán, Santa María la Mayor and San Pablo Extramuros. However, the Pontiff wanted to open another additional in the Roman jail of Rebibbia.

On December 26, the Holy Father repeated at the door of the Church of this Penitentiary Center of the Italian capital the gesture he already made in the Basilica of San Pedro as a symbol of hope to extend this gesture of grace to the prisoners.

On January 7, only two weeks after the official inauguration of the Jubileo de la Esperanza, 545,532 pilgrims around the world had already crossed the Holy Gate of the Basilica of San Pedro in the Vatican, as reported by Dicastery for the Evangelism.