Over 10,000 believers welcomed the Pope in the central square of the city of Plodiv with the words "We want Pope", "We love You" and "Long Live the Pope" in the last day of his visit to Bulgaria. Pope John Paul II served in Bulgarian a three-hour mass on Holy Trinity in Plovdiv on May 26th. The success of our earthly pilgrimage depends on whether we respond to God's love, the Pope said. The Pope called on the Bulgarian Church to seriously consider the possibility of opening of a Catholic seminary in Bulgaria to train young priests. The Pope also addressed those professing the Islamic religion who also "worship, though in a different way, the only Almighty God". Turning to the Holy Virgien icon placed at the altar, Pope John Paul II asked the Holy Virgin to take care of the Bulgarian people. The icon - actually the sole copy of the original wonder working icon presenting the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus, kept in the Bachkovski Monastery, was given as a gift to the Pope by the Plovdiv community. Catholics from Bulgaria, Poland, Italy, France and Romania were among the people on the square. The Pope served a mass together with the four cardinals, accompanying him, Bulgarian and foreign bishops and priests. Kamen Vichev, Iosafat Shishkov and Pavel Dzhidzhov - Bulgarian Catholic clergymen, who were executed after being convicted by a communist court of espionage, were beatified. The Pope said that by beatifying the three Bulgarian Catholic priests, he also wishes to pay tribute to all martyrs of the Eastern Orthodox faith during the communist regime. 350 children received their first communion during the mass. Prayer "Angel of the Lord" was said. Before the prayer, the Pope congratulated the believers in the square in French, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian, Polish, etc.