Pope visit to Transylvania brings hope to Hungarian community The focal point of Pope Francis's trip to Romania, an open-air mass Saturday in a predominantly ethnic-Hungarian part of the picturesque Transylvania region, is keenly awaited for both faith and national identity reasons. Around 200,000 visitors, mostly ethnic Hungarian Catholics, are expected to journey to a holy site on a verdant hillside near Miercurea Ciuc, 215 kilometres north of Bucharest, where the Pope will celebrate mass.IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES