{"id":7785,"date":"2026-06-07T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/1-million-flood-madrid-streets-pope-procession\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T11:00:10","slug":"1-million-flood-madrid-streets-pope-procession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moresourcing.com\/en\/1-million-flood-madrid-streets-pope-procession\/","title":{"rendered":"1 million people flood Madrid streets to see the pope’s flower-carpeted procession : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass marking the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi at Plaza de Cibeles in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, June 7, 2026, on the second day of his seven-day apostolic visit to mainland Spain and the Canary Islands.\n \n \n Manu Fernandez\/AP\n \n <\/b>\n hide caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n\n toggle caption<\/b><\/b>\n <\/div>\n\n \n \n Manu Fernandez\/AP\n \n <\/span>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n

MADRID \u2014 Pope Leo XIV honored Spain’s centuries-old tradition of religious devotion on Sunday as a “school of faith” for today, as he presided over a Mass before a million people and highlighted one of the most iconic expressions of Spanish popular piety with a procession over flower-petal carpets.<\/p>

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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 to a crowd packed several rows deep of people eager to witness the first papal visit in 15 years.<\/p>

Sunday’s Mass 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, the processions often feature elaborate floral carpets arranged along the route.<\/p>