Pope Leo XIV on July 4 Leo XIV visits Lampedusa

Vatican City (Vatican), Feb. 19 (LaPresse) – Pope Leo XIV will travel on July 4, 2026, for a pastoral visit to Lampedusa. The Holy See Press Office announced the news. This fulfills the wish expressed by Prevost last September. The Vatican Press Office also announced other pastoral visits. For the first year of his pontificate, on May 8 the Pope will travel to Pompeii for Mass and the Supplication to the Madonna, and in the afternoon he will be in Naples for a meeting with the clergy and then with citizens. On May 23, the eve of the anniversary of the encyclical “Laudato Sì,” the Pope will be in Acerra for a meeting with the faithful of the Terra dei Fuochi. On June 20 the Pope will travel to Pavia, where the body of Saint Augustine is kept. On August 6 Leo XIV will return to Assisi, where he had been last November on the occasion of the general assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference: at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli a meeting with young people gathered for the eighth centenary of the Passing of Saint Francis is scheduled, followed by a Mass. The Holy See Press Office added that on August 22 the Pontiff will attend the 47th Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples in Rimini. On the same day Prevost will celebrate a Holy Mass with the faithful of the Diocese. The last Pope to personally participate in the Communion and Liberation Meeting was Saint John Paul II in 1982.