Overview
- Portuguese priest and DJ Guilherme Peixoto will stage a free tribute in Plaza de Mayo on Saturday at 8 p.m., organized by the NGO Miserando with support from the Buenos Aires Archdiocese and the city government, with a livestream on his YouTube channel.
- The Argentine bishops set a central memorial Mass in the Basilica of Luján on Tuesday at 5 p.m., to be presided by episcopal conference president Marcelo Colombo during the bishops’ plenary assembly.
- Buenos Aires’s Archdiocese confirmed a memorial liturgy at the Basílica de San José de Flores led by Archbishop Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva, with coverage on Canal Orbe 21.
- Miserando describes the Plaza de Mayo event as open to all with no tickets or VIP areas, invites people from communities it serves, and says Peixoto will blend Francis’s messages with electronic music and include Argentine songs he loved.
- Peixoto, who drew global attention at World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023 for mixing faith messages with techno, arrived in Argentina on Wednesday and was welcomed by organizers at Ezeiza airport.