{"id":83600,"date":"2026-06-12T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83600"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:54:53","slug":"pope-leo-xivs-france-visit-takes-shape-with-stops-at-notre-dame-lourdes-and-metz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-leo-xivs-france-visit-takes-shape-with-stops-at-notre-dame-lourdes-and-metz\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV\u2019s France Visit Takes Shape With Stops At Notre Dame, Lourdes And Metz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>OSV<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>As Pope Leo XIV makes a triumphant papal return to Spain \u2014 where crowds have been eager to listen to his words after 15 years without an apostolic visit \u2014 the French bishops\u2019 conference released additional details regarding the pope\u2019s Sept. 25-28\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osvnews.com\/pope-leo-to-visit-france-in-september\/\">visit to France<\/a>, hoping the atmosphere will match the joy across Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The pope will pray vespers at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, marking the first papal visit since the cathedral was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osvnews.com\/notre-dames-inaugural-mass-reveals-the-lord-does-not-abandon-his-own\/\">reopened<\/a> Dec. 8, 2024, following renovations after a tragic 2019 fire.\u00a0On Saturday, Sept. 26, he will celebrate a solemn outdoor Mass in Paris, at a location that has yet to be confirmed.\u00a0Pope Leo will then depart for the Marian Shrine of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osvnews.com\/tag\/our-lady-of-lourdes-shrine\/\">Our Lady of Lourdes<\/a>\u00a0in southwestern France, at the foot of the Pyrenees. He will celebrate Sunday Mass Sept. 27, on the meadow facing the grotto where the Virgin Mary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lourdes-france.org\/en\/\">appeared<\/a>\u00a0to St. Bernadette in 1858.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From OSV: As Pope Leo XIV makes a triumphant papal return to Spain \u2014 where crowds have been eager to.<\/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-83600","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\/83600","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=83600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83602,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83600\/revisions\/83602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}