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- Pope Leo XIV will travel to Pompei on May 8, 2026, for a Mass and the Rosary supplication marking election’s anniversary.
- He will meet 140 youths, hear testimonies from single mothers, disabled persons, immigrants and the poor, and fly to Naples to pray before Saint Januarius’s blood relic.
- Campania officials anticipate 5,000 faithful in Pompei and 25,000 in Naples’s Piazza del Plebiscito, with thousands of police and volunteers ready.
