The Pope has become the first pontiff to visit the Venice Biennale art festival, calling on the Vatican pavilion — staged in the city’s women’s prison — before celebrating mass for around 10,000 people in St Mark’s Square.
“Today we will all leave this courtyard enriched … and perhaps the person most enriched will be me,” the Pope told prisoners and guards in the courtyard of the Giudecca prison after greeting all 80 detainees individually from his wheelchair.
“Let’s not forget that we all have errors to be forgiven and wounds to be healed — me also — and that we can all become the healed who bring healing, the forgiven who bring forgiveness, the reborn who bring rebirth,” he told the inmates during the
