Thousands of inhabitants of the town of El Cobre mine stationed along the road leading to the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Charity for the Pope Francisco in his third day of visit to Cuba as a Missionary of Mercy.
In the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of Cobre, the Bishop of Rome will be in prayer with Our Lady of Charity.
The Pontiff from the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity, High will officially start the Jubilee Year for the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of Our Lady of Charity as Patroness of Cuba (1916).
Tomorrow His Holiness will officiate the third and final Mass under the Caribbean island, to next continue his apostolic and pastoral visit to the United States.
Pope Francisco visit the College San Basilio Magno Seminary-College Christian Brothers one of the oldest institutions founded in Santiago de Cuba in 1722 in favor of education and culture. It is the oldest of the Cuban institutions of higher learning. In the same studied Fidel and Raul Castro.
Santiago de Cuba, the second most populous province of the Island near Havana, is the only visited by popes, since both were John Paul II, Benedict XVI in 1998 and in 2012.