{"id":80043,"date":"2025-08-19T16:17:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=80043"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:27:59","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-visits-a-shrine-that-held-special-devotion-for-pope-saint-john-paul-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/08\/19\/pope-leo-xiv-visits-a-shrine-that-held-special-devotion-for-pope-saint-john-paul-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV visits a shrine that held special devotion for Pope Saint John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although the Pope decided to return to Castel Gandolfo for a second vacation, his busy schedule has not diminished, having many surprise visits.<br><br>Pope Leo traveled by car to a town in the neighboring diocese of Palestrina. There he visited one of the Marian shrines that inspired the greatest devotion among his predecessor, Pope Saint John Paul II.<br><br>It is that of Our Lady of Grace, a shrine run by Polish religious groups and located on the top of a mountain. It is the highest inhabited place in the Lazio region.<br><br>The cave where Saint Benedict retired to devote himself to prayer, just as Saint Gregory the Great did years later, is still preserved there.<br><br>After a long journey, the religious groups showed Pope Leo this chalice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>-You told me the chalice...<br>-Yes. Here, here, here. The chalice was the gift of John Paul II, who rushed it 13 days after his election. We left it a little longer... 100 days...<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this visit, three pontiffs have now been to this place: Pope Innocent XIII, Pope Saint John Paul II, and now Pope Leo XIV.<br><br>AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TR: GS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the Pope decided to return to Castel Gandolfo for a second vacation, his busy schedule has not diminished, having many surprise visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":80040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ir3kE2OfABE","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvisitamadonnaleoneeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bvisitamadonnaleoneint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80043"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80045,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80043\/revisions\/80045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}