Overview

• On Sunday, the image completed its third October procession in Lima with stops at the Dos de Mayo and Guillermo Almenara hospitals to bless patients and staff.
• The anda was returned to the Templo de Las Nazarenas, with the next procession scheduled for October 26 and a planned visit to Callao for the first time in two decades.
• A day earlier in Rome, Pope Leo XIV publicly blessed the image in St. Peter’s Square following the Angelus during a high-profile appearance.
• Cardinal Pedro Barreto presided at a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica honoring the devotion and urged Peruvians to seek peace, justice and hope, calling it "the best internet."
• The Rome events included a first-time procession along Via della Conciliazione, music by children from a Paris school, and the canonization of Venezuelans José Hernández and Carmen Rendiles.