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Andrea Bocelli has been singing professionally for over 30 years and in that time has performed before the last four Roman Catholic pontiffs, including Pope Leo XIV. Recently, he sang once again for the latter Holy Father during the Cantico di Pace, which is a prayer and music event marking 800 years since the death of St Francis of Assisi in Castel Gandolfo.
The event was organised by the Laudato si Center for Advanced Formation and the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. And now you can watch the footage of Bocelli singing goosebump-inducing renditions of Amazing Grace and Panis Angelicus below.
Bocelli and his wife Veronica reflected on Instagram: “‘Talent is a gift Heaven places in our hands, not to keep for ourselves, but to share with others throughout our lives.’
“Yesterday, at Borgo Laudato Si’, a place the Church has dedicated to the care of creation and the dignity of the most vulnerable, the children, educators, and choir directors who came from Haiti, Uganda, the Holy Land, Camerino, and the Rione Sanità in Naples honoured that gift by singing the Canticle of Peace for Pope Leo XIV.”
He then went on to speak of the joy of performing for the new Pope.
Bocelli continued: “The privilege of singing in the presence of the Holy Father remains a source of profound joy, untouched by the years. In Pope Leo XIV, a man of God of exceptional spiritual and intellectual stature, the universal Church has found a steadfast shepherd for a time as troubled as our own.
“That the voices raised before him belonged to young people who have grown up in places where, in some cases, even the word “peace” is not easily spoken seemed to us a sign of Providence.
In recent days, the Global Gathering also brought them to the Senate of the Republic. They now return home knowing that they belong to a community no border can contain, and our gratitude goes with each and every one of them.”
