The head of the Catholic church, Pope Francis, fell to the ground today while walking to an open-air altar at Poland's holiest shrine, Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland.
The priests surrounding the Pope were quick to help him up again, after he might have been lost in thought and missed a step. He then performed the mass as planned before tens of thousands of faithful.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke later released a statement after he was asked if the pope had suffered any ill effects from the fall, Burke said; “the pope is fine,”
The pope celebrated the mass at the foot of the Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland. The shrine to the Virgin Mary holds the revered "Black Madonna of Czestochowa," a 14th century icon that many Poles credits with miracles.
A Catholic priest, Fr Jacques Hamel was recently killed by a Syrian refugee and ISIS soldier in France during a morning mass, and one of the hostages during the attack is also in a critical conditions.