Pope Leo XIV Visits Peru’s St. Turibius Shrine on Nov. 14 as 300th Canonization Jubilee Ends
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Updated · Our Sunday Visitor · Nov 4
Pope Leo XIV Visits Peru’s St. Turibius Shrine on Nov. 14 as 300th Canonization Jubilee Ends
3 articles · Updated · Our Sunday Visitor · Nov 4
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Nov. 14 will bring Pope Leo XIV to Zaña’s Shrine of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo for a 5:30 p.m. prayer meeting closing the 300th anniversary jubilee of the saint’s canonization.
The stop is unusually personal for Leo, formerly Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo: he prayed at the shrine before his 2014 episcopal ordination and returned regularly for Mass on the saint’s April 27 feast day.
St. Turibius, born in Spain in 1538, led Lima’s church from 1581 and spent about 17 of 25 years on pastoral visitations, traveling more than 25,000 miles to remote Indigenous communities.
Leo has cast that missionary model as a guide for Latin America’s bishops, saying pastors must leave their desks, encounter communities directly and seek out people with little access to church leadership.
The Zaña visit caps the pope’s Nov. 11-16 Peru trip and highlights a town tied both to Turibius’ 1606 death and to Afro-Peruvian history recognized by UNESCO in 2017.