Peru promulgated on Saturday a law that seeks the Vatican to recognize a region of the north of the country as a “Eucharistic City”a management that began Pope Leo XIV when he was a bishop a few years ago in the Andean nation and where according to the local Catholic tradition a miracle occurred more than four centuries.
The law was signed by President Dina Boluarte, who will attend the Vatican on Sunday to the enthronement of Leónwhose choice caused jubilation in Peru, of a Catholic majority.
The initiative had been promoted by the Congress and the city of Etenwhere according to the Catholic tradition and religious authorities of LugaR A miracle occurred in 1649 with the appearance of “Child Jesus” in a host during a religious ceremony.
Robert Prevost, who assumed the name of Leo XIV after his choice as Pope, arrived for the first time in 1985 when he was sent as a missionary to a small town. In 2015, Peruvian was nationalized, after a year before he was appointed bishop of the Northern Ciclayo city where he served until 2023.
That year Pope Francis He called the Premost to the Vatican to direct the office that chooses bishops worldwide.
Prevost, as a bishop of Chiclayo, had presented to Pope Francis in 2019 a project to recognize the “Eucharistic miracle” of Eten, Accompanying documents with historical stories and “testimonies of faith” of thousands of people as the Catholic Church of Chiclayo reported at that time.
Jesús León, the coordinator of an Eten Catholic group that promotes the recognition of the fact and who worked with Bishop Prevost in the project, He said this week that the now Pope Leo XIV was “a fervent driver of this miracle.”
The law endorsed by Boluarte says that recognition through a “Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Peru” aims to promote the customs of ETEn, as well as “local tourism and generate a positive impact” in the area.
Peru’s Foreign Minister Elmer Schialer told journalists a few days ago that The Foreign Ministry was looking for Boluarte to have a hearing with Pope León in the Vatican, Not to mention details of it.
