Pope Francis remembered Christian martyrs at Uganda during the Eucharistic celebration on Saturday.
He paid his respects to Ugandan Christians martyred for their faith in the 19th Century on the latest stage of his trip to Africa.
Twenty-five Anglicans and 22 Catholic converts where killed during the persecutions, mostly by being burned to death, between 1884 and 1887 at the orders of King Buganda Mwanga II.
The pope looked perturbed as he toured the shrine and looked at graphic displays depicting the killing of the martyrs.
Francis, later said Mass for tens of thousands of people huddled on muddy hillsides surrounding the soaring modern shrine, cone-shaped to resemble a hut of the Baganda tribe.
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