Pope Francis missed a step and toppled to the ground as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland’s holiest shrine of Jasna Gora.
The 79-year-old pontiff, walking deep in thought in his long robe, did not notice a step down and fell to the ground before the altar.
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Priests around him rushed to help him up and straightened his robe.
The Mass proceeded as planned and the pope delivered a sermon before tens of thousands of faithful gathered at the foot of the Jasna Gora monastery in the southern city of Czestochowa.