World Youth Day Participants Wear Red Bandanas in Memory of Church’s Martyrs

CNA reports: Bishop Demetrio Fernandez Gonzalez of Cordoba, Spain recently explained that the red bandanas that were distributed to World Youth Day participants in his diocese recall the sacrifice of Christian martyrs.  . . .  The event was intended to encourage young people to “change their lives, to draw closer to Jesus Christ, to live in a state of grace and recover the purity of soul that is offered in the sacrament of forgiveness,” Bishop Fernandez said. Read more here.