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WYD Lisbon passes first test, despite vanishing pilgrims and risky swims

All the news from Lisbon - The Pillar's World Youth Day roundup

Filipe d’Avillez
Aug 02, 2023
∙ Paid

As World Youth Day continues Aug 1-6 in Lisbon, Portugal, The Pillar’s WYD correspondent, Filipe d’Avillez, brings you a daily news diary with everything you’ll want to know:

World Youth Day officially began in Portugal Tuesday with an open-air Mass celebrated by Cardinal Manuel Clemente, the Patriarch of Lisbon.

Clemente told the hundreds of thousands yo…

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