We have the pope in Madrid. From early this Saturday morning, while some streets were quieter than normal, certain areas of the city were bustling. The faithful gathered at the main points of Leo XIV’s route on his first day in the city: from the Royal Palace to the Caritas center in Carabanchel where the Pope met with several of the users. But the big event on Saturday was the prayer vigil held in the Plaza de Lima, near the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, whose surroundings began to fill with pilgrims from four in the afternoon, four and a half hours before the Supreme Pontiff took the stage from which he addressed 500,000 pilgrims, according to figures from the Government Delegation.
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