Pope's Mass in Spain features iconic procession along flower-carpeted route

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Hundreds of thousands of people poured into a central Madrid plaza on Sunday for Pope Leo XIV 's main Mass and a procession highlighting one of the most iconic expressions of Spanish popular piety: flower carpets.

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