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Pope Leo XIV turned 70 this Sunday (9/14). The Pontiff received congratulations messages from the faithful in the Basilica of St. Peter during the Mass of Noon.
“My dear ones, it seems that you know that today I turned 70,” the Pope said to the applause. “I thank the Lord, my parents, and all those who remembered me in their prayers.”
I thank you, my parents and all those who remembered me in their prayers, ”said Pope Leo XIV/Photo: Disclosure/Vatican
The American-Peruvian Robert Prevost was elected Pope in May, at age 69, being the youngest to occupy the post since 1978.
In addition to the faithful, Leo XIV received votes from Italy President Sergio Mattarella and the first minister of the European country, Giorgia Meloni.
Mattarella thanked Pontície’s “urgent appeals” to cease the fire and resume the path of dialogue, for the common good of peoples, “while the Italian prime minister said that the teachings of the religious leader are a” reliable and solid orientation in extremely complex times when certainties seem to be as sudden as deep. “
