Overview
- Pope León XIV began his final day by visiting the Complejo Penitenciario Federal de Villa Devoto, where he spent about 30 minutes with roughly 70–75 selected inmates and urged conversion, dignity and opportunities for social reintegration.
- He then celebrated a closing Mass at the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Luján that provincial police estimated was attended by about 2.5 million people and where he called for national reconciliation with the cry “¡Argentina, levántate y camina!”
- On arrival in Luján the pope left the papamóvil and walked the last stretch to the altar to greet pilgrims, after a vigilia of music and testimonies that had drawn large crowds since the night before.
- Authorities mounted a large security and assistance operation for the events, deploying roughly 30,000 personnel including police, volunteers, health teams and civil defense and imposing road and rail access controls to manage the pilgrim flows.
- After the Mass the pope attended a farewell at Ezeiza and departed for Lima as scheduled, closing a four-day pastoral visit that highlighted Luján’s role as Argentina’s principal Marian shrine and recalled Devoto’s historical ties to prior papal outreach to prisoners.