Pope visits San Marino, before addressing Italian political gathering

VATICAN CITY, Aug 22: 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.

The pontiff will spend the morning in San Marino, a 60-square-kilometre (24-square-mile) enclave of 33,000 people in the Apennine Mountains, in the latest in a series of brief pastoral visits close to home this summer.