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In a return to normality after the problems he suffered due to inflammation of the bronchi, the Pope returned this Friday afternoon to Plaza España to pay tribute to the Virgin Mary on the national holiday of December 8 in Italy. After having surrendered surprisingly very early in the morning, when it was still night in Rome, a “personal devotion” the pontiff went to venerate the image of the Immaculate Conception in the afternoon before a crowd that gathers every year on this day in tribute to the mother of Christ. “Immaculate Virgin!” We come to you with a heart divided between hope and anguish. We need you, our mother,” the pontiff prayed before the column erected in one of the central points of Rome in 1857. The pontiff went in the afternoon to venerate the image of the Immaculate Conception before a crowd.
EFE In an atmosphere of religious devotion and Luxembourg Mobile Number List celebration of Catholic dogma with a lot of floral presence in homage to Mary. Francisco appeared in good shape . He walked aided by a cane dressed in a white coat and asked the Virgin's intercession for families, study and work centers, public institutions, hospitals and residences, prisons and the homeless. In the speech Jorge Bergoglio made special reference to the violence that shakes the world and, especially, women. “Our destiny is not death but life, it is not hatred but brotherhood, it is not conflict but harmony, it is not war but peace.” The Pope during the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Photo: EFEThe Pope during the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Photo: EFE Showing his recovery with some coughs, with a confident voice although he avoided high tones.
Mother, direct your eyes of mercy to all people oppressed by injustice and poverty, marked by war. Look at the martyred Ukrainian people, the Palestinian people or the Israeli people, fallen into the spiral of violence.” Francisco recalled “Many wounded mothers who mourn their children killed by war or terrorism” or who see them leaving on journeys of hope. The Pope remembered the women who have “suffered violence and those who are still victims” around the world. “You know them one by one, you know the faces. We ask you: dry their tears and those of their loved ones,” said Francesco, asking the Virgin to help “make a path of education and purification, recognizing and combating the violence “embedded in our hearts and minds.