Pope Leo Gets Emotional Singing the Salve Regina at Notre-Dame
Description: Thousands gathered outside Notre-Dame to pray the Salve Regina with Pope Leo XIV before this beautiful silver statue of Our Lady and the Infant Jesus.
Visibly moved, the Holy Father paused in prayer before an image that has accompanied Paris through generations.
Commissioned in the early 19th century and crafted by goldsmith Charles-Nicolas Odiot, the statue survived being thrown from the archbishop’s palace during the riots of 1831 and later narrowly escaped being melted down.
Crowned for Notre-Dame’s Assumption procession in 1929, it was carried in the cathedral’s processions until the devastating fire of 2019.
Tonight, before thousands gathered in prayer, it stood once again as a sign of Mary’s enduring presence over Paris as Patroness of France. Close description
Visibly moved, the Holy Father paused in prayer before an image that has accompanied Paris through generations.
Commissioned in the early 19th century and crafted by goldsmith Charles-Nicolas Odiot, the statue survived being thrown from the archbishop’s palace during the riots of 1831 and later narrowly escaped being melted down.
Crowned for Notre-Dame’s Assumption procession in 1929, it was carried in the cathedral’s processions until the devastating fire of 2019.
Tonight, before thousands gathered in prayer, it stood once again as a sign of Mary’s enduring presence over Paris as Patroness of France. Close description