Pope to travel to Molise on Saturday

(Vatican Radio) A Vatican Press Office communiqué on Monday illustrated Pope Francis’ Apostolic Journey to the southern Italian region of Molise on Saturday, July 5.

The press release revealed that the Pope is scheduled to make five public appearances over the course of the day starting with a meeting with workers in the regional capital Campobasso at 9am.

He will preside over Mass in the Stadium of Campobasso at 10.30am, after which he will travel to the Cathedral for a meeting with a group of sick people.

The Pope will have lunch with the poor at the Caritas soup kitchen in Campobasso and afterwards will travel by helicopter to Castelpetroso where he will meet with young people of Abruzzo and Molise in the Sanctuary of Castelpetroso at 3.15pm.

Pope Francis will then go, by car, to the city of Isernia where he will meet with prison inmates at the city detention center and after with the sick in the Cathedral.

At 6.15pm the Pope will be received by city authorities for the launch the Celestinian Jubilee Year.

He is scheduled to travel back to the Vatican in a Isernia Fire Brigade helicopter.