As Pope Francis arrived in Piazza di Spagna in Rome on Friday afternoon, he was greeted by Mayor Virginia Raggi, as well as thousands of pilgrims, tourists and Roman residents. <\/p>\n
On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the pope stood before the column and statue of Mary to recite a special prayer. <\/strong><\/p>\n POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Continuing, the Holy Father asked Mary to bless Christians with the necessary strength provided by the Gospel to fight off the negative mindsets of today.<\/p>\n In the front row of the crowd were those who have not chosen their illnesses. Pope Francis bestowed his blessing upon them before greeting some of the other attendees while exiting the square on foot. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 8, 2017. The pope thanked the Mother of God for \u201cthe constant care\u201d and asked Her to help \u201ccombat viruses\u201d of indifference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BN4h056pQe8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaspagnaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapaspagnaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cGrant that through her prayers we ourselves may come to you, cleansed from all sin.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n