Faithful gather in Florida for Pope Leo's Uruguay farewell

The plaza footage captures the preparations, while a separate report describes the pope's appeal for respect and honesty within families.

Channel: EL PAÍS · SpainStory of November 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? One of EL PAÍS's most watched videos since yesterday, with 22,886 views.

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Religious songs carry across a tree-lined plaza in Florida, Uruguay, as hundreds of people gather near the city's Cathedral Basilica. Organizers direct pedestrians through the crowd while others continue arriving for Pope Leo XIV's farewell Mass.

The broadcast from Spain's newspaper EL PAÍS captures the wait rather than the ceremony itself. After a lengthy opening holding screen, the camera settles on a wide view of the square. A female singing voice comes through the loudspeakers, with Marian hymns accompanying the movement of people beneath the trees. The pope does not appear in this portion of the broadcast.

The gathering marks the closing stage of his Uruguay visit. In its separate report on the Mass, the newspaper says the ceremony coincided with the feast of Our Lady of the Thirty-Three, Uruguay's patroness, and that Leo presented the Marian image with the Golden Rose, a papal honor.

That account also describes a homily focused on family responsibilities. Leo thanked mothers and grandmothers for passing on the Catholic faith and urged families not to give up on young people who have drifted away. He called on fathers and grandfathers to treat their wives respectfully, ask forgiveness when necessary and live honestly.

The farewell was followed by another stop on the South American journey: according to the newspaper's subsequent coverage, Leo traveled to Buenos Aires and met Argentine President Javier Milei, with Peru next on the itinerary.

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The numbers

The plaza broadcast drew about 23,000 views since yesterday, placing it among Spain's most watched new news videos.

subscribers

3,390,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

2,447,044,546

views per day

1,380,139

typical day: 2,777,478

the video

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22,886

likes

245

comments

1

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1

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