From AP:
Pope Leo XIV honored Barcelona’s most sacred and beautiful monuments Wednesday with a noontime prayer at a mountain-top abbey and an evening Mass planned at the famed Sagrada Familia Basilica on the centenary of the death of its architect, Antoni Gaudí.
The celebration of Barcelona’s Christian traditions, past and present, marked the highlight of Leo’s weeklong visit to Spain. Leo celebrated their centuries-old tradition of popular piety by praying at Montserrat, a mountain complex outside the city that is dear to many Catalanas. The complex, which includes an 11th-century Benedictine abbey and a 16th-century basilica, is revered for its Black Madonna statue and is home to a boy’s choir that has existed since the 13th century and is Europe’s oldest.