In Spain, about a million people participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.

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available for free download at this link. In the image, the pontiff appears smiling, dressed in the traditional white cassock and the gold pectoral cross he wore during his first greeting from the ...

“He was behind us; he was there in spirit,” she told The Catholic Free Press. She said they went there annually for 15 years. “It’s such a special place, pilgrimage aside,” Christian Mucha said of his ...