The rite commemorating Jesus Christ's suffering and death is one of the highlights of World Youth Day festivities, a six-day international Catholic jamboree.
Pilgrims shrieked and waved as the pontiff, surrounded by bodyguards, slowly drove by on his popemobile to the stage set up at the hillside Eduardo VII park for the event.
The 86-year-old pope, wearing a white cassock, paused several times to have babies brought to him, and he kissed them on the head.
Many national flags fluttered in the huge crowd... Читать дальше...