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Pope Visits San Marino, Before Addressing Italian Political Gathering

The pope will address the annual Rimini Meeting after a prayer service in San Marino, where the event draws hundreds of thousands each summer.

  • On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV visited San Marino, the world's oldest republic, to address the local ecclesial community and highlight the legacy of founders Saints Marinus and Leo.
  • The pontiff spent the morning in the Apennine Mountains enclave of 33,000 people, continuing brief pastoral visits across Italy this summer including stops in Pavia, Assisi, and Lampedusa.
  • Before his address, Leo visited an exhibition dedicated to Saint Augustine, the fifth-century theologian who founded the 13th-century Augustinian order to which he belongs.
  • Following the San Marino visit, the head of the Catholic Church travels to Rimini this weekend for the annual Rimini Meeting, the first papal appearance since 1982.
  • Speakers include Latin Patriarch Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, as the pontiff insists the Gospel is the "path of freedom.
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The president of the Sae Group tells of the confrontation with the pontiff during his visit to San Marino: "A moment of great intensity, which I will take with me forever"

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The bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro, Monsignor Domenico Beneventi, called him the greatest show after the Big Bang. A quote from Jovanotti to express the great enthusiasm that accompanied the visit of Pope Leo XIV to San Marino. The welcome ceremony, with the welcome of the Captains Regents of the Republic, Alice Mina and Vladimiro [...] L'articolo The Pope in San Marino: "Freedom is realized in communion and dialogue. We protect international …

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It is planned that you will have a private meeting with the community of the Monastery of San Antonio de Padua de las Agustinas in Pennabilli

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Mattarella thanks the Pope for his attention to the harmony of the peoples in a historical juncture in which the international order is increasingly exposed to dangerous drives towards the law of the strongest "

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Pope visits San Marino, before addressing Italian political gathering

Pope Leo XIV arrived Saturday in the tiny republic of San Marino ahead of an address to a cultural and political event organised by an influential Catholic group at the Italian seaside resort of Rimini.

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Misyjne.pl broke the news on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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