At the end of Holy Mass, the Holy Father leads the recitation of the Angelus from Piazza della Libertà, before the faithful gathered for the mid-August (Ferragosto) period at Castel Gandolfo. In his reflection, Leo XIV illustrated two iconographic traditions of the Assumption: the ancient "Dormition," depicting Mary asleep on a bier while the risen Christ receives her soul, and the image, developed in the West, of Mary glorified in heaven, clothed in light. He reaffirmed that "Mary was assumed body and soul, that is, in the integrity of her person," linking the mystery to the Christian hope of bodily resurrection. After the Marian prayer he made appeals for the communities of the Holy Land, for the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, for persecuted Christians worldwide and for the Colombian populations hit by the recent earthquake, concluding with the invocation "Holy Mary, pray for us!"