Soccer. This is the big ending. The semi-finals will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Spain will face Sweden on Tuesday (at 10 a.m. on France 3). Emerging nation of women’s football, La Roja is preparing to play its first semi-final of the World Cup, in its third participation. The Scandinavians have still not won a single major trophy since Euro 1984 (the first Euro in history). In recent years, they have lost in the final of the Olympic Games in 2016 and 2021, as well as in the semi-finals of Euro 2022 and the 2019 World Cup. Australia, winners of Les Bleues, will challenge England on Wednesday at 12 hours on M6. The two winners will meet on Sunday for the grand finale in Sydney which will be broadcast at 12 p.m. on France Télévisions.
Party. A Mass of the Assumption and a torchlight procession dedicated to the Virgin Mary will bring together thousands of pilgrims of all ages and backgrounds to the Catholic sanctuary of Lourdes. Since its inception in 1873, the National Assumption Pilgrimage has celebrated the ascent to heaven at the end of her earthly life of Mary, the mother of Christ, a belief that had existed for centuries when Pope Pius XII erected the Assumption. into dogma in 1950. According to Catholic theology, Mary, preserved from all sin from her conception in order to give birth to the son of God, could not know the corruption due to sin after her death.
