Paris: Pope Leo XIV to celebrate Mass before huge crowd
Around 600,000 people have registered to attend a Mass at the Place de la Concorde, near the Champs-Elysees. Pope Leo XIV is on a four-day visit to France.
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Around 600,000 people have registered to attend a Mass at the Place de la Concorde, near the Champs-Elysees. Pope Leo XIV is on a four-day visit to France.
Pope Leo XIV is to celebrate an open-air mass for some 600,000 believers on Saturday on the French capital's Place de la Concorde and adjoining Champs-Elysees.
Pope Leo XIV held an outdoor Mass at Paris’s Place de la Concorde before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of believers on Saturday. The Vatican estimated that some 700,000 people had gathered for the giant open-air event. Follow our liveblog for all the latest on the pope's four-day visit to France.
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