Pope Leo XIV Visits 33,000-Person San Marino, Addresses Rimini Meeting for First Time Since 1982
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 21
Pope Leo XIV Visits 33,000-Person San Marino, Addresses Rimini Meeting for First Time Since 1982
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 21
Summary
Saturday’s trip will take Pope Leo XIV first to San Marino for meetings with local authorities and a prayer service in the basilica, before he heads to Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic coast.
At 4:00 pm in Rimini, Leo is due to address the annual Communion and Liberation gathering, becoming the first pontiff to take part in the event since John Paul II in 1982.
Hundreds of thousands attend the Rimini Meeting each summer, a religion-culture-politics forum long linked to Italy’s former Christian Democratic movement; this year’s speakers include Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini.
The pope will also visit a St Augustine exhibition, meet sick and disabled faithful at Rimini’s cathedral, and celebrate an open-air Mass at the city’s port.
The visit extends Leo’s pattern of short summer pastoral trips near Rome, following stops in Pavia, Lampedusa, Assisi and a March visit to Monaco rather than any long foreign journey.