He took advantage of the holiday day in the Vatican, due to the festival of ascent, and went, surprisingly, “visiting the Borgo Laudato Si project, in Castel Gandolfo, and, on the occasion, at the Papal Palace”. Pope Leone, confirms the Vatican press room, reached the village, established with an unsecured by Pope Francis in 2023, mid -morning. The project created in the Papal Villas area is a training space on the themes of the common house. The Papal Palace, on the other hand, was transformed by Pope Francis into a museum pole.
Welcomed by Cardinal Baggio and the Operational Director of the Borgo Laudato project yes, Father Manuel Dorantes, Pope Leone stopped in the garden of the Virgin Mary, a refuge historically loved by many popes over the centuries, says the Vatican press room. He then visited the Giardini del Belvedere, where he observed the final preparations underway for the imminent inauguration of the Borgo Laudato Si ‘, the initiative launched by Pope Francis on February 2, 2023, rooted in the mission of the Church to promote full ecology, combining the treatment for creating with the protection of human dignity. The Pope then stopped at the cryptoportic, the archaeological remains of the hearing room of the emperor Domitian, where he had the opportunity to remember the courageous actions of Pope Pius XII, who in 1944 provided refuge for over 12,000 people following the bombing of the Castelli Romani region during the Second World War. Finally, the Pope concluded his visit to the Papal Palace and the historic Villa Barberini, before returning to the Vatican