‘Watch over this humanity’ Pope Leo asks of our Lady on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Oudtshoorn, 9 December 2025 – Continuing a decades-old tradition of paying homage to the statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome, Pope Leo prayed at the foot of the 12-meter column on top of which the figure of the Virgin Mary is placed, and laid a wreath at the base.



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