PRAYER VIGIL AT THE STADE DE FRANCE PHOTOPQR OUEST FRANCE Stéphane Geufroi Paris September 25, 2026 Léon XIV begins aa historic four-day visit to France—an event for which one million people are expected. The prayer vigil at the Stade de France: Léon XIV was welcomed amid an electric atmosphere on Friday, September 25, shortly before 9 p.m. at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, near Paris. Greeted like a rock star, the American pope—who arrived in the popemobile—was cheered by some 80,000 young people who had been waiting for him for several hours to the sound of pop, worship, and gospel music, during an evening intended to highlight the resurgence of religious devotion among young Catholics in France. Leo XIV was welcomed in a high-energ