More than 1 million people flood Madrid streets to see Pope Leo preside over open-air Mass

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More than one million people gathered in Madrid to attend an open-air Mass presided over by Pope Leo, celebrating a long-standing tradition of religious devotion in Spain. The event featured a procession over flower-petal carpets and was marked by large crowds enthusiastically participating.

Pope Leo honoured Spain’s centuries-old tradition of religious devotion on Sunday as a “school of faith” for today, as he presided over a Mass before more than a million people that highlighted one of the most iconic expressions of Spanish popular piety: a procession over flower-petal carpets. The crowd cheered and shouted “This is the youth of the pope!” as Leo arrived for the Mass at a central Madrid plaza. He looped around the plaza and surrounding streets in his Popemobile before a crowd...