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Giant mass in Paris on Saturday
The visit will continue on Saturday with a giant mass on the Place de la Concorde and the Champs-Élysées at which 600,000 faithful are expected, including several political figures, but not Emmanuel Macron.
A visit under high security
This visit in three stages – Paris, Lourdes and Metz – mobilizes draconian security, with telling figures: 17,000 volunteers, 15,000 police officers and gendarmes, 2,500 accredited journalists and a budget of 27 million euros.
The Pope’s program on Friday
The plane of the 71-year-old pope, who has roots in France – his grandmother was born in Le Havre before emigrating to the United States – must land at 10 a.m. at Orly airportwhere he will be received by President Emmanuel Macron while the bells of the country’s churches will ring for seven minutes.
A marathon day awaits him next: after a first speech at the end of the morning (11:45 a.m.) at the Élysée Palace before the authorities and the diplomatic corps, he will speak in the afternoon (3 p.m.) at UNESCO headquarters where he should renew his call to regulate AIin a context of growing concern about possible deviations from algorithms.
This will be followed by a large stroll under high security in the center of the capital, where the weather forecast predicts summer temperatures: from the Notre-Dame-des-Champs church, in the 6th arrondissement, Léon XIV will travel 2.5 km in a popemobile to Notre-Dame cathedral.
Leo XIV will then celebrate at 5:15 p.m. Vespers in front of priests, deacons and seminarians at Notre-Damewhere he will be the first pope to go since the reopening of the cathedral in December 2024. His predecessor Francis declined the invitation to the ceremony organized five years after the fire which ravaged the Gothic building.
Last step: one great prayer vigil at the Stade de France in Saint-Denisnorth of Paris, should bring together 80,000 young people aged 17 to 35 for a program combining pop-praise, exchange with the Pope and exhibition of the “holy tunic of Christ”, a relic kept in Argenteuil.
Pope Leo XIV flies for a highly anticipated first visit to France
Expected by enthusiastic faithful, Pope Leo
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