The pope delivered this message in the Croatian language.
"Dear friends, I will visit Zagreb and Croatia on Saturday and Sunday to be together with you and celebrate the Day of the Croatian Catholic Families. As I am looking forward to this meeting, I call on you to pray for my pastoral visit to this dear country so that it may result in the wealth of spiritual fruits and that Christian families may be the salt of the land and the light of the world," the pontiff said on this occasion.