A vast crowd gathered outside Peru’s northern city of Chiclayo early on Friday for the centerpiece event of Pope Leo’s 12-day South America tour, an outdoor Mass with the people who knew him as their bishop for eight years.
More people were heading in vehicles and on foot to an arid field just outside Chiclayo, a city 10,700 km (6,650 miles) from Rome, where the former Robert Prevost, elected leader of the Catholic Church last year, is still described as “Padre” (Father) or “Amigo” (Friend).
Lines of cars forced many to walk part of the way to Pampas de Pimentel, a vast desert park west of the city where Leo will lead Friday’s Mass.
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