Two - year - old child’s family asked permission to go out with the hospital child. Parents want to see Pope Leo XIV, who arrived today in Paris, France.
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25/09/2026
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Dafter 700 days in the hospital, two-year-old Octave is leaving today at the request of his parents. The goal is to see Pope Leo XIV.
Sophia, mother of the child, wants to take her son to see the passage of the Pope Leo through the streets of Paris, where she hopes the high pontiff will see her son and bless him.
Still in the mother's belly, Octave was diagnosed with a diaphragmatic hernia of the dome, a muscle malformation separating the chest from the abdomen. His condition means that he never left the hospital in his two years.
This is going to change today: Octave's family asked for permission to go out with their son. According to Le Parisien, he intends to stand by the Cathedral of Notre Dame, where the Pope will preside at a mass, to attend the moment when the Pope will travel the various streets of the French capital.
They hope to get Leo XIV to see them, and hopefully get him off the Papamovel to bless his son.
Remember that Leo XIV arrived at the airport of Paris-Orly, at 10 am on Friday (less than 1 hour in Lisbon), with a courtesy visit to Emmanuel Macron.
Today is the first of four days of visit to France, where it will pass through Paris, Lourdes and Metz.
This is the first visit of a Pope to France since Benedict XVI in September 2008, i.e. 18 years ago.
Giant Masses, an intense program and great popular and media enthusiasm await Leo XIV, with the visit to be seen as an opportunity for a Catholic Church in search of renewal.
For the pontifical visit, which costs EUR 27 million, thousands of security forces were mobilized.