Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday in a prison

Pope Francis went to the Velletri Penitentiary Center, a town less than 100 kilometers from the Vatican, where he celebrated mbad for authorities, employees and prisoners of the place, and then washed his feet. from 12 of them.

This is the fifth time that Francis celebrates Holy Thursday – the day of the last supper – in a prison. It is there that he commemorated Jesus' gesture with the Apostles before being delivered by Judas and crucified.

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The detainees to whom the sovereign pontiff had washed his hands were 9 Italians, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Ivory Coast and 1 from Morocco.

During his improvised and speechless homily, the pope urged them to serve one another, to be brothers in service and not to ambition, as someone who dominates the world. other or trampling each other, not being brother in the service.