"While it was night around, the pope laid a basket of white roses at the base of the column on top of which stands the statue of Our ... The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is a public holiday ...

Pope Francis made an early morning visit on Wednesday to the statue ... Immaculate Conception due to the pandemic. Pope Francis began the feast of the Immaculate Conception by bringing white ...

While Romans slept and darkness still covered the eternal city, Pope Francis left the Vatican this morning to pray in private before the statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception for three ...

Pope Francis venerated the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome's Piazza di Spagna, continuing the tradition set by his predecessors in the late 1900s. The event began with the reading from ...