Written in EU he 8/5/2025 · 21:05 hs
EFE.- The Empire State Empire State building illuminated this Thursday of gold and white colors in honor of the first American Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and with Peruvian nationality, which from this Thursday will adopt the name of Pope Leo XIV.
“Tonight will shine the gold and white in honor of Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope,” wrote in X the official account of the iconic building of the Big Apple.
-This has not been the only tribute to the new Pope in New Yorkhours before, the bells of the Cathedral of San Patricio repressed to announce that the Catholics had a new Pope.
The resonar was heard on Fifth Avenue, congested passers -by and tourists, some of whom stopped their passage and looked curiously at the public and the press that swirled in front of the cathedral.
The cardinals elected Thursday in the fourth vote (second day) to Prevost, who worked 20 years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as a bishop and who dedicated to this country some words during his first presentation as Pope Leo XIV.
