# Pope Leo XIV visits Lourdes pilgrimage site

https://mins.news/en/item/75795

- France 24, 2026-09-27 08:39 UTC
- Culture
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/pope-leo-visits-lourdes-pilgrimage-site

> Pope Leo XIV ended his second day in France in Lourdes, praying at the Grotto of Massabielle. On Sunday, he is due to celebrate another open-air Mass and privately meet seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse. A French inquiry found that Church members had abused around 330,000 minors over seven decades.

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