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More than two million people turned out for Pope Leo XIV’s two major events in Madrid. The first, a Saturday night youth vigil, followed by a Sunday mass. Throngs of people lined the streets as he motored in the infamous “Pope Mobile” between his three-days of engagements that included meeting with the King, speaking to Spanish Parliament and other official events.
The country shuts down Thursday and Friday before Easter. Every neighborhood throughout Spain has processions like the ones below commemorating the death and life of Jesus.
Visiting Americans are usually taken aback by the klan-like robes. The centuries-old tradition behind wearing these robes, (taken from the Inquistion) was for the wearers to be anonymous before God with the conical hood streamlining the soul to the heavens as an act of forgiveness for past sins.
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