Substantial throngs are anticipated throughout the pontiff’s itinerary, which the Church views as indicative of a resurgent spiritual devotion among the French and broader European populace.
By Sunday, 150,000 individuals have registered to participate in mass at the Pyrenean sanctuary of Lourdes.
On Monday, the pontiff will travel to Metz in northeastern France to honor Robert Schuman (1886-1963), a principal architect of the European Union and a devout Catholic currently under consideration for beatification.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Pope Leo XIV was originally named Robert Prevost—a distinctly French given name.
His paternal grandmother was born in Le Havre, Normandy, in 1894. Upon marrying in the United States many years later, she and her Italian husband adopted the surname Prevost, which was her mother’s maiden name.
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