22
Aug 2026
Sat
Saturday 22 August 2026 — State visit to San Marino and the Rimini Meeting
08:00
Torraccia Airfield / Piazza della Libertà, San Marino
🏛️ State Visit
State visit to the Republic of San Marino
📍 Torraccia Airfield / Piazza della Libertà, San Marino
Pope Leo XIV departs by helicopter from the Vatican at 8:00 AM and lands a few minutes early, at 8:45 AM, at the Torraccia Airfield. At 9:30 AM the official welcome at Palazzo Pubblico by the Captains Regent Alice Mina and Vladimiro Selva, who in their welcome address quote a passage from the encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" on the risks of the technocratic paradigm. In the Great and General Council Hall the Pope delivers his address on freedom: "There is no true civil liberty without personal freedom, that is, without respect for and promotion of the dignity of the human person. This freedom is ultimately given and guaranteed by God, whose voice resounds in the conscience of every human being." He points to San Marino as a possible "laboratory of good politics," grounded in the principles of Catholic social doctrine: the common good, the universal destination of goods, subsidiarity and solidarity. He then greets and blesses the crowd from the balcony of Piazza della Libertà. This is only the third time in history that a Pope has visited the Republic of the Titano, after John Paul II (August 29, 1982) and Benedict XVI (June 19, 2011).
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🎥 Videos
San Marino and Rimini prepare to welcome Pope Leo XIV (Vatican News, 21 August 2026)
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San Marino and Rimini prepare to welcome Pope Leo XIV (Vatican News, 21 August 2026)
Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Authorities, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
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Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Authorities, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Arrival and Welcome Ceremony, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
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Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Arrival and Welcome Ceremony, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
Republic of San Marino: Arrival and Welcome Ceremony (Vatican News, full version)
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Republic of San Marino: Arrival and Welcome Ceremony (Vatican News, full version)
Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Authorities (Vatican News, full version)
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Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Authorities (Vatican News, full version)
📷 Photos
The Pope at Palazzo Pubblico with the Captains Regent of San Marino (Vatican News)
The Pope at Palazzo Pubblico with the Captains Regent of San Marino (Vatican News)
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📋 Daily schedule
11:45
22
Aug
⛪ Basilica of San Marino
Homage to the relics of Saint Marinus and meeting with the Diocese
📍 Basilica of San Marino, San Marino
After the institutional stop at Palazzo Pubblico, Pope Leo XIV reaches the Basilica of San Marino, where he pauses in eucharistic adoration and pays homage to the relics of the founding Saint, meeting the ecclesial community of the Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro, led by Bishop Domenico Beneventi, who describes it as a "welcoming State committed to paths of peace." In his address the Pope says: "We live in a world wounded by many conflicts, in which violence, closure and fear of the other are worryingly increasing. Faced with these troubling trends, our response can only be to walk with even greater conviction on the path of the Gospel." Addressing the young people present, he urges them: "Do not be afraid to make demanding choices." Before leaving San Marino, he blesses a newborn baby and greets the faithful gathered in the square.
🎥 Videos
Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Clergy, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
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Highlights - Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Clergy, 22 August 2026 (Vatican News)
Pope Leo meets with Catholic community of San Marino (Vatican News)
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Pope Leo meets with Catholic community of San Marino (Vatican News)
Pope Leo urges young people to open their hearts to Christ (Vatican News)
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Pope Leo urges young people to open their hearts to Christ (Vatican News)
Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Clergy (Vatican News, full version)
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Republic of San Marino: Meeting with Clergy (Vatican News, full version)
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13:00
22
Aug
🙏 Private visit
Private stop at the Monastery of St. Anthony of Padua
📍 Monastery of St. Anthony of Padua, Pennabilli (Rimini)
During the transfer from San Marino to Rimini, Pope Leo XIV makes a brief private stop, not open to the media, at the Monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in Pennabilli, in the province of Rimini.
16:00
22
Aug
🤝 Rimini Meeting
Visit to the Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples
📍 Rimini Fairgrounds
Pope Leo XIV lands at the Rimini Fairgrounds at 2:45 PM, welcomed by around 100,000 people along the route, 55,000 of them inside the fairgrounds. He visits the exhibition on Saint Augustine and the one on Léon Harmel, greets the young people gathered at the Youth Village, then speaks in the Grand Auditorium of the 47th Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, organized by the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, before around 20,000 people in the hall and another 20,000 in the connected halls with big screens. The 2026 Meeting is dedicated to the theme "The love that moves the sun and the other stars." In his address the Pope points to love as the method of redemption, opposed to the "false realism" that arms minds and nations, and calls on those present to take responsibility for purifying culture of arrogance and work of the "idolatry of profit," unmasking the unjust power relations at the root of poverty and conflict; he also urges young people to get involved and open themselves to universal catholicity. This is only the second time in the 47-year history of the Meeting that a Pontiff has made an official visit to Rimini, following that of John Paul II 44 years earlier.
17:30
22
Aug
🤝 Meeting with the sick
Meeting with fragile and sick people
📍 Malatestiano Temple (Cathedral), Rimini
After leaving the Fairgrounds, Pope Leo XIV continues his pastoral visit to Rimini with a meeting at the Malatestiano Temple, the city's Cathedral, with fragile and sick people, people with disabilities, and the poor assisted by Caritas: around 600 people in conditions of fragility are expected, including 80 in wheelchairs. In his greeting the Pope invites them to "let themselves be healed by Jesus" and to feel like a living part of the Church's journey.
18:30
22
Aug
⛪ Holy Mass
Holy Mass for the city and Diocese of Rimini
📍 Port of Rimini
After the meeting in the Cathedral, at 6:00 PM Pope Leo XIV walks to the port area through the Parco del Mare, and at 6:30 PM presides over Holy Mass for the city and for the entire Diocese of Rimini, broadcast live from the Port of Rimini. During the celebration, the original image of the Madonna della Misericordia, patroness of the city, is displayed and venerated. The liturgy is animated by an impressive diocesan musical ensemble of over 800 performers, including 650 choir members and 115 musicians from the youth orchestra directed by maestro Davide Tura, with organ by Paolo Accardi and an ecumenical Italian, Ukrainian and Russian choir performing Byzantine-Slavic chant in the Cathedral. In his homily the Pope says the world offers "scattering distractions" while true rest lies in "returning to oneself," and praises the straightforwardness and solidarity of the people of Romagna, quoting Fr. Oreste Benzi: "In the Church, authority is service."
21:00
22
Aug
🚁 Return
Return to the Vatican
📍 Vatican City
After the Holy Mass at the Port of Rimini, Pope Leo XIV returns by helicopter to the Vatican in the evening, around 9:00 PM, concluding the state visit to San Marino and the pastoral visit to Rimini.
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