Pope Francis to arrive in Quebec City Wednesday afternoon. Pope is expected to make his way to the Citadelle, where he will meet with the Governor General and Prime Minister, before his address to the public
The address will be broadcast at 4:45 p.m. on giant screens to crowds on the Plains of Abraham. The screens will be located behind the Manège militaire de Québec and in front of theThe sites on the Plains can welcome up to 160,000 people.Pope Francis is then expected to travel by Popemobile to the Plains along George VI Avenue East, before his convoy heads toward the Archdiocese of Quebec, not far from the Château Frontenac hotel.
The community is home to the last residential school in Quebec, Pointe-Bleue, which closed in 1991. The survivors hail from the Innu, Anishinaabe, Naskapi, Wendat and Atikamekw nations.On Thursday the Pope will hold a mass at 10 a.m. at the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica, about 30 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
Florence Penashue’s 94-year-old grandmother, Mary Odele Penashue, has made the annual summer pilgrimage many times. "It means to me that he wants to reconcile, restore what was broken and apologize to the Indigenous people," she added.
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