Pope Francis ended his three-day pilgrimage of peace to Armenia with a visit to Khor Virap (Deep Pit), an Armenian monastery some twenty miles south of Yerevan near the closed border with Turkey in the Ararat Plain.

Catholicos Karekin II accompanied Pope Francis to the monastery were it is said that Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for many years by King Trdat III.

Pope Francis then boarded a plane at Zvartnots Airport for a flight back to the Vatican.