Pope to celebrate mass at Castelgandolfo on Feast of Assumption

14 Aug. 2013: Pope Francis on Thursday 15 August - the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, will go to Castel Gandolfo to celebrate Mass in the town’s main square and recite the Angelus prayer. Before Mass, the Pope will make a private visit to the Monastery of cloistered Poor Clare Sisters in Castel Gandolfo. This is the second visit of the Holy Father to the monastery, which he also privately visited on July 14. The birth of the Monastery dates back to March 18, 1631.
Most popes usually spend the hot summer months at the Apostolic Palace in Castelgandolfo, but Pope Francis who stayed on at the Vatican for the summer, will especially go the Castelgandofo, some 30 kms from Rome to celebrate Mass on the feast of the Assumption. Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven.. It is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.
Source: Sedoc