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Pope Leo XIV to Visit Peru's Shrine of St. Turibius
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In Short: Pope Leo XIV will visit Peru's Shrine of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo on November 14, 2026, as part of his South American tour.
Pope Leo XIV will visit Peru's Shrine of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo on November 14, 2026, as part of his South American tour. The Vatican’s itinerary places the pope at the shrine at 5:30 p.m. For a prayer service concluding celebrations marking 300 years since St. Turibius’ canonization.
The visit is a homecoming for Pope Leo, who became a Peruvian citizen while serving as bishop of Chiclayo. The shrine, located in Zaña, will see the convergence of two missionary bishops separated by more than four centuries.
Betty Burga Campos, a lay pastoral worker in Zaña, told OSV News that as bishop, Pope Leo would set aside April 27, St. Turibius’ feast day, to celebrate Mass at the shrine. The shrine, which has a banner bearing an image of Pope Leo XIV hanging from one of its towers, will be a significant stop in the pope’s itinerary.
During his 11-16 November visit to Peru, Pope Leo will travel to the shrine in Zaña for a prayer service. The visit is expected to include stops in Lima, Chiclayo, Piura, Cusco, and Pucallpa, as well as in Argentina and Uruguay.
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Peru will cap an 11-day journey to South America.
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Peru will be more than a pilgrimage stop. The pope’s visit will be a homecoming, and the Peruvian government recently declared the site to be “of national interest.”
Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Peru will be a significant moment for the Peruvian church. The pope’s visit will be a homecoming, and the Peruvian bishops’ conference called for prayers, entrusting the pope’s life and recovery with filial confidence to the merciful hands of the Lord of Miracles.
Background
Pope Leo XIV will visit Peru's Shrine of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo on November 14, 2026, as part of his South American tour.
Pope Leo XIV was presented with a book documenting a pilgrimage inspired by Peru's Eucharistic miracle.
What's confirmed
- Gloria Burga, a lay pastoral worker in Zaña, told OSV News that as bishop he would set aside April 27, St. Turibius’ feast day, to celebrate Mass at the shrine.
- The Vatican’s itinerary places the pope at the shrine at 5:30 p.m.
What's still developing
- Betty Burga Campos, 56, who cooked "aguadito con fe," a traditional soup of rice, meat and vegetables served by volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, stands outside the Shrine of St.
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- In the photo, the pope can be seen celebrating Mass in green vestments, accompanied by one of his personal secretaries, Peruvian Father Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga.
- Chulucanas is the site of then-Father Robert Prevost’s first missionary assignment in northern Peru in 1985, when the man who would become pope — and who has held Peruvian citizenship since 2015 — arrived as an Augustinian missionary in this region entrusted to his order.
- Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago, became a naturalized Peruvian citizen in 2015, and led the Diocese of Chiclayo, in northern Peru, from 2015 to 2023 before his election as Pope Leo XIV in May 2025.
- “There I came to know first-hand the faith of a people from whom I received so much,” the pope wrote of Peru.
- “The best way to honor his memory,” Pope Leo told the bishops, is to be challenged by his ministry and imitate him.
- Then-Bishop Prevost received him into the Diocese of Chiclayo, and in July the priest published “Huellas de pastor” (“Footprints of a Shepherd”), a book that traces Father Prevost’s path from Chicago to the papacy and sets his life alongside that of St. Turibius.
- That experience, he said, taught him more fully what it meant to be a shepherd and drew him especially close to St. Turibius, another bishop who had “come from afar” and made Peru his own through pastoral charity.
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