ROME – Reviving a tradition that reaches back to the 1600s, Pope Leo will spend most of July and at least part of August at the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, located about an hour’s drive south of the Vatican in the hills above Lake Albano.
The Prefecture of the Papal Household issued an announcement today that Pope Leo will begin his stay at Castel Gandolfo on Sunday, July 6.
The next Sunday, July 13, he will celebrate Mass at the pontifical parish of St Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo and then deliver the noontime Angelus address in the Piazza della Libertà, located in front of the Apostolic Palace.
