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Pope visits Santa Maria Maggiore, prays at predecessor’s tomb
November 05, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: En route to his weekly stay at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo XIV visited the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where he placed a bouquet of white roses on Pope Francis’s tomb and prayed there.
The Pontiff also prayed before the Salus Populi Romani, the beloved Roman Marian image.
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