VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday beneath Michelangelo’s frescoed ceiling, continuing an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican.
Later, speaking to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff offered his blessing to all infants receiving the sacrament of baptism in these days, “in particular those born in difficult conditions of health or external danger.”
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