A total of 150,000 people expected to attend Czech masses served by pope

Around 100,000 people, including thousands of priests, are expected to turn out for mass served by Pope Benedict XVI in Brno on Sunday, Czech bishop Václav Malý told journalists on Thursday. The pope will start a three-day visit to the Czech Republic on Saturday. On his last day in the country, September 28, which is a state holiday in honor of the patron saint of the Czech Republic Saint Wenceslas, the pope is set to serve a mass in Stará Boleslav, where Wenceslas was slain, to another 50,000 people.