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More than 1 million people flood Madrid streets to see Pope Leo preside over open-air Mass

Pope Leo honoured Spainโ€™s centuries-old tradition of religious devotion on Sunday as a โ€œschool of faithโ€ for today, as he presided over a Mass before more than a million people that highlighted one of the most iconic expressions of Spanish popular piety: a procession over flower-petal carpets. The crowd cheered and shouted โ€œThis is the youth of the pope!โ€ as Leo arrived for the Mass at a central Madrid plaza. He looped around the plaza and surrounding streets in his Popemobile before a crowd...