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The hall has a seating capacity of 6,300, designed in reinforced concrete by the Italian architect Pier Luigi Nervi and completed in 1971. [1] It was constructed on land donated by the Knights of Columbus and is named for Pope St. Paul VI. [2]
The Resurrection (La Resurrezione) is a bronze and brass sculpture by Pericle Fazzini in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome. [1] Intended to capture the anguish of 20th century mankind living under the threat of nuclear war, La Resurrezione depicts Jesus rising from a nuclear crater in the Garden of Gethsemane. Fazzini summarized the action of ...
Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (Arcibasilica di San Giovanni in Laterano); Basilica of Saint Mary Major (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore); Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura) (the complex includes also the Benedictine monastery, the Pontifical Oratory of San Paolo and the Pontifical Beda College).
Commemorative sculpture of the meeting between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem. The list of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, [1] [2] representing the first ever papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land [3] and the first papal visit to the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Two animal rights activists briefly stormed Pope Francis’ general audience in the Vatican on Wednesday, in a protest against bullfighting. The activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of ...
The women walked down an aisle in the Vatican's Paul VI hall holding signs and wearing white t-shirts with slogans such as "Bullfighting is a sin" and "Stop blessing corridas," the Spanish term ...
The museum has been arranged into two wings. The principal wing is the museum of all artistic and historic importance starting with the paintings of the history of the Papal States, portraits of Popes until date, memorabilia of the Papal Military Corps including the navy, documents related to ceremonial orders of Popes, the Papal household items, and various ceremonial regalia and religious ...
The Gallery of Maps [1] (Italian: Galleria delle carte geografiche) is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.