A reported 9.1 million
pilgrims have travelled to Rome since the Jubilee Year started
six months ago, said Thursday Monsignor Rino Fisichella,
president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New
Evangelisation, who is overseeing the Jubilee.
Fisichella said that during the Jubilee Year of Mercy,
which started on December 8, 9.100,935 pilgrims have visited the
four Jubilee Basilicas - St Peter's, St John Lateran, S. Maria
Maggiore and S. Paolo Fuori le Mura - and the Sanctuary of our
Lady of Divine Love.
Presenting initiatives for the Jubilee of the Sick and the
Disabled, which starts Friday through Sunday, he also said the
"significant number" showed pilgrims wanted to travel to meet
Pope Francis, although the Jubilee was designed to be lived
around the world and not exclusively in Rome.
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