It would be easy to joke about the names, Lion meets the “Bad Rabbit”. As Prevost had joked on the plane, answering a question from the journalists following him on the flight who asked him if he knew of the simultaneous presence of Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican rapper, in the city. “Between me and Bad Bunny, many young people today choose him,” he said, laughing. And instead, on his first night alone in Madrid, 600 thousand people were present at the youth vigil, the same number that the artist collected in 12 concerts. The Puerto Rican pop star, very followed by teenagers, then wanted to meet the Pontiff, in the utmost confidentiality, on the sidelines
of the event with the diocese of Madrid in the Bernabeu stadium, the evening before Leone’s departure for Barcelona. The news leaked just under 24 hours later. And the Vatican press office confirmed that the Pontiff saw him together “with his family, and with other people to whom he addressed a brief greeting before leaving the Stadium”. Combining rapper music, celebration and faith.
