World Youth Day 2011
Following the celebration of Holy Mass at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on 20 July 2008, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the next International World Youth Day 2011 would be held in Madrid, Spain. This event was held from 16–21 August 2011.
There were nine official patron saints for World Youth Day 2011 in addition to Blessed John Paul II: St. Isidore, St. John of the Cross, St. Maria de la Cabeza, St. John of Avila, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Rose of Lima, St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Rafael Arnaiz, and St. Francis Xavier, patron of world missions. During his address to seminarians, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the Spanish mystic and patron of Spanish diocesan clerics, St. John of Avila, will now be a "Doctor of the Church," a designation granted to only 34 saints throughout the twenty centuries of Church history.
The event was judged to be a success, with an estimated 2,000,000 people at an all-night vigil to complete the week; a crowd figure very much higher than expected.
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