Blanco will sing for the Pope

If it is not yet clear, i2022 is Blanco’s year. After winning the Sanremo Festival paired with Mahmood, having sold out his tour and being ready to represent Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, another milestone opens up for Blanco: perform at a prayer meeting with Pope Francis on Easter Monday, i.e. April 18. This was announced by the head of the CEI national office for youth ministry, don Michele Falabretti, during the briefing for the presentation of the event.

Blanco – stage name of Riccardo Fabbriconi – will perform in the presence of thousands of teenagers from all over Italy before the arrival of the Pope, scheduled for 6 pm. To prepare for the prayer vigil in the preceding hours, together with the testimony of some young people who will offer a glimpse of the life of today’s adolescents and pre-adolescents, there will also be Blanco, who will perform, in addition to the 57 thousand children who will crowd the square, also for 60 bishops and dozens of lay educators and priests.

This is the first meeting of the Pope in the Vatican with Italian children after the long pause due to the pandemic, a further sign of recovery after the return of the general audiences in the square. At the ceremony, which will be conducted by Andrea Delogu and Gabriele Vagnato, will also participate, among others, Giovanni Scifoni, Michele La Ginestra, and the young Matteo Romano. “While we were preparing the event – Falabretti reported – we had thought of a very simple welcome, but as the numbers increased we had to structure it in a more articulated way”. “With the pilgrimage of adolescents to Rome and their meeting with the Pope, we wish to encourage and give signs of hope to those who spend themselves on the growth of children and to those who look to the Christian community as the guardian of a future of life which is born from faith in the risen Jesus ”, explained Don Michele.

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