The Holy Father will next visit the Canary Islands before wrapping up his seven-day visit to Spain.
Pope Leo XIV greets Catholics at a prayer vigil at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, June 9, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV continued his historic visit to Spain on June 10 with a whirlwind series of events in Barcelona including a visit to a penitentiary and Mass at the famed Sagrada Familia Basilica.
The Holy Father will now depart mainland Europe and visit the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain, finishing his trip on June 12 before returning to Rome.
Here is a look at what Pope Leo XIV has been up to in Barcelona:
Pope Leo XIV blesses ambulances near Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, June 9, 2026. The Holy Fatherʼs weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV participates in a prayer vigil at Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona, Spain, June 9, 2026. The Holy Fatherʼs weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV visits Brians 1 Prison in Barcelona, June 10, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV greets crowds at the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, June 10, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV greets crowds at the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, June 10, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV prays at the Abbey of Our Lady of Montserrat, June 10, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV meets with students while visiting the Benedictine community of Montserrat in Spain, June 10, 2026. The Holy Father’s weeklong trip to Spain includes visits to historic Catholic sites and a trip to the Canary Islands. | Credit: Vatican Media
Pope Leo XIV says Mass at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2026. The towering church has been under construction since the 1880s. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
Pope Leo XIV speaks during Mass at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, June 10, 2026. The towering church has been under construction since the 1880s. | Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
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Pope Francis speaks with journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona. / Credit: Vatican Media
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Vatican City, Apr 24, 2017 / 10:07 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis on Saturday comforted the sister of Father Jacques Hamel, an 85-year-old priest who was killed by ISIS sympathizers while celebrating Mass in Normandy, France last summer.
According to the Associated Press, the Pope gripped the hands of Roselyne Hamel and spoke quietly to her during an April 22 liturgy honoring the “new martyrs” of the 20th and 21st centuries in the Basilica of St Bartholomew on Rome’s Tiber Island.
Fr. Hamel was killed July 26, 2016 while celebrating Mass after two armed gunmen stormed a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. The assailants entered the church and took the priest and four others hostage. Local law enforcement reported that the priest’s throat was slit in the attack, and that both of the hostage takers were shot dead by police. The attackers were identified as Islamist extremists.
Pope Francis issued a statement at the time decrying the “absurd violence.” He later said during a Mass in September at the Vatican in honor of Fr. Hamel that the slain priest “is blessed now,” according to Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen who was there.
The Pope referred to the priest as “an example of courage” because “he emptied himself to serve others, to build brotherhood among men.”
Last October, the French diocese of Rouen officially began an inquiry into the beatification of Fr. Hamel after the Pope waived the traditional five-year waiting period.
At the service Saturday, Roselyne shared with the congregation how her brother was “strong in his faith in Christ, strong in his love for the Gospel and for people, whoever it was, and – I am certain – also for his killers.”
She said that his death was a witness for the whole world, and continued the ‘yes’ with which he had given his life in service to Christ at the moment of his ordination.
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