{"id":83416,"date":"2026-06-07T08:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83416"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T12:01:42","slug":"pope-leo-carries-eucharist-among-1-2m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-leo-carries-eucharist-among-1-2m-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo Carries Eucharist Among 1.2M People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 <em>Aleteia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.en.aleteia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/pope-leo-xiv-madrid-spain-corpus-christi-afp-000_B69Q9RF.jpg?resize=620,413&amp;q=75\" alt=\"pope-leo-xiv-madrid-spain\" width=\"321\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>Pope Leo spent a sunny morning in Madrid with some 1.2 million people, first celebrating Mass at a massive outdoor altar in the city&#8217;s main plaza, and then carrying the Eucharist through the streets in a long procession on this feast of Corpus Christi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" \">\n<p>This feast day is always celebrated on a wide scale in Spain, and the flower carpets lining the street for the Eucharist to pass are just one sign of a city that celebrates the Blessed Sacrament. After Saturday evening&#8217;s emotional vigil and long moments of Adoration, today&#8217;s procession places Pope Leo&#8217;s Spain visit in a decidedly Eucharistic mode.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0 Aleteia: Pope Leo spent a sunny morning in Madrid with some 1.2 million people, first celebrating Mass at a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83418,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83416\/revisions\/83418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}