after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano and on the drive back ...

GENAZZANO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first pope to come from the Order of St. Augustine, made a visit very early in his pontificate to the ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

And since at least the 15th century, Augustinians have had devotion to Our Lady of Good Counsel. In 1467, as they were renovating a village church, a miraculous image of Our Lady and the Child ...