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Going Home to Rome: A pilgrimage renews the call to life, love and hope

By Emily Woodham Staff Writer Editor’s note: The following is a first-person account of ICR staff writer Emily Woodham’s recent trip to the Vatican. Sunlight broke through billowing gray clouds as icy winds blew through St. Peter’s Square on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 26. Tens of thousands of people from around the world streamed in through the Vatican security lines to see Pope Leo XIV in Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile. (ICR Photo/Emily Woodham) a general audienc

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Saint Albert the Great

The Blessed Mother granted him the ability to understand knowledge more than any other person and protection from being led astray by his faith. She told him that at the end of his life, all his knowledge would leave his mind so that he would die as in the innocence of childhood.

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Saint Juliana Falconieri

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St. Philip Neri

Rome was in devastation when St. Philip Neri arrived in 1533. Through his love, hope and good humor, God brought revival to the ancient See of St. Peter.

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