Pope Leo XIV consecrated the Tower of Jesus Christ on June 10 and celebrated a solemn Mass in Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Cathedral. The Tower of Jesus Christ is the central and tallest tower among the temple’s eighteen towers, and work on it was completed in February. With its construction, the Sagrada Familia became the tallest Christian church in the world, 11 meters behind Ulm Cathedral. The ceremony of consecration of the tower (the temple itself was consecrated by Benedict
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