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Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper in a prison, as he often does. Despite the wheelchair, he was able to wash the feet of 12 inmates.
Repeating Christ’s gesture of washing his disciples’ feet at the Last Supper, the 87-year-old Pontiff washed and kissed the feet of 12 female inmates at Rome’s Rebibbia prison on Holy Thursday, March 28, 2024.
A few weeks after his election in 2013, Pope Francis surprised many by celebrating the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in a juvenile prison; however, it was a practice he had adopted when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Now as Bishop of Rome, he has repeated the gesture frequently in subsequent years, visiting other prisons, including another section of the Rebibbia in 2015.
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Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper in a prison, as he often does. Despite the wheelchair, he was able to wash the feet of 12 inmates.
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