Ignacio’s family said they find comfort and hope despite their pain and are grateful for the gestures of closeness.

Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family. The pope said that if the teen "had come all the way to Rome, then (the pope) could come all the way to the hospital to see him," Carmen Gloria Gonzálvez, the teen's mother, told Vatican News Aug. 4.

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the participants of the Medjugorje youth festival to unite the flames of their hearts so that this fire may illuminate their journey toward God.