Via Crucis 2021, the Pope’s embrace of children – Chronicle

Vatican City, April 2, 2021 – The image of French Pope in a Saint Peter’s Square deserted, to preside over the traditional rite of Way of the Cross. A year later, the image, spread around the world, is the same. Only this time Bergoglio is accompanied by children, those to whom the Coronavirus pandemic has demanded the greatest sacrifices during this long year. And it is they, the girls and boys of the Roman parish of the Holy Martyrs of Uganda, the group of explorers Agesci ‘Foligno I’ and the guests of two family houses in Rome, the authors of the texts and gods drawings commented on the 14 stations.

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The Pontiff closed with his blessing, without giving a speech, at the end of the stations that trace the death of Jesus. hug bergoglio, who in turn greeted and caressed them immediately. Then, back to the Basilica, with a visibly limping step, the Pope walked towards two other children, accompanied by two nuns and two women with torches still lit, stopping again to receive and entertain them. And so the Stations of the Cross ended, with what might appear to be the tender gestures of a grandfather to his grandchildren.

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