More than a million people flocked to the streets of Madrid to catch sight of Pope Leo XIV holding his open-air Mass this morning.
The Pontiff was driven through the Spanish capital in his beloved ‘popemobile’ on the second day of his official week-long visit to the country – the first in 15 years – with devotees shouting ‘long live the Pope’ and waving Spanish and Vatican flags.
The event fell on the Catholic Corpus Domini feast day, which often features processions of faithful through towns and cities led by a priest carrying the Eucharist.
In Spain, as in other predominantly Catholic countries,
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