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Larger-than-life Leo statue awaits the pope on Peru’s Pacific coast
Before Pope Leo reaches Peru later this week, a larger-than-life version is already waiting for him on the Pacific shore.
Summary
It depicts the first US-born pope in flowing white robes in a country that has embraced him as one of its own. Leo's arrival in Peru on Wednesday will cap his 12-day, three-country tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, his first to South America as pope and a return to a region where he spent years as a missionary.