One of Scotland's most senior Catholics is to apologise on behalf of the Church for decades of physical and sexual abuse of pupils at a boarding school.
The Bishop of Aberdeen, Hugh Gilbert, will address the parish at Fort Augustus in the Highlands.
The apology comes after the BBC found evidence of physical and sexual abuse by monks at Fort Augustus Abbey School and its prep school in East Lothian.
The Benedictine order, which ran the schools, has already apologised.
The apology from Bishop Gilbert will be the first time a senior cleric has spoken publicly about abuse at the abbey schools.
BBC Scotland spoke to more than 50 former pupils during its six-month investigation.
Many former pupils who spoke to the team said they had nothing but good memories of the school, but the BBC also heard accounts from old boys of serious physical violence and sexual assault, including rape, by monks over a 30-year period.
BBC Scotland Investigates: Sins of Our Fathers, which aired on Monday, contained evidence against seven Fort Augustus monks. Two headmasters have also been accused of covering-up the abuse.
The documentary also contained allegations that the abbey was used as a "dumping ground" for problem clergy who had confessed to abusing children.
Since the programme was broadcast, the BBC has been contacted by other former pupils with similar claims of abuse, right up until the boarding school closed in the 1990s. Police Scotland have confirmed they are investigating the allegations.
Dom Richard Yeo, the Abbot President of the Benedictines order which ran the school, apologised on the programme and said mistakes were made.
"All I can say is that I'm sorry that it happened, it shouldn't have happened," he said.
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