Pope Francis’s envoy to Medjugorje has said “there is a special spiritual climate” in the town.

Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga, Poland, who was appointed by Francis in February to study the pastoral situation in the small town and the needs of pilgrims, held a press conference after a week in Medjugorje.

The archbishop told reporters he could not respond to questions about the authenticity of the claims of six young people who said Mary had appeared to them daily beginning in 1981. Some of the six say Mary still appears to them and gives them messages each day, while others say they now see her only once a year.