Pope Leo XIV will travel to the tiny republic of San Marino on Saturday before attending a cultural and political event organised by an influential Catholic group at an Italian seaside resort.
The pontiff is to spend the morning in San Marino, a 60-square-kilometre (24-square-mile) enclave of 33,000 people in the Apennine Mountains, in what will be the latest in a series of brief pastoral visits not far from home this summer.
The trip by the pope — who rules over the world’s smallest country, Vatican City — follows one made in March to another European statelet, the principality of Monaco.
In San Marino, the world’s oldest republic, the Chicago-born pope is to meet with local authorities before holding a prayer service in the local basilica.
The head of the Catholic Church will then head to Rimini, a popular seaside city on Italy’s Adriatic coast, for the annual gathering of Communion and Liberation, a Christian group.
