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The Paul VI Audience Hall (Italian: Aula Paolo VI), also known as the Hall of the Pontifical Audiences, is an audience hall in which the Pope has held various audiences and conferences. Description [ edit ]
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 .
The theme of this private chamber – probably an audience room – was the heavenly protection granted by Christ to the Church. [2] The four paintings are: The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple, The Mass at Bolsena, The Meeting of Pope Leo I and Attila, and The Deliverance of Saint Peter from Prison. In the first two of these frescoes ...
Pope Francis, who recently had the flu, was brought to a hospital in Rome for diagnostic testing after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said, without giving further details. Earlier in ...
Pope Francis speaks during the weekly general audience at the Paul VI Hall on Feb. 12, 2025, in Vatican City. Francis also received blood transfusions after tests revealed he had a low platelet ...
We're discussing the voting process depicted in the new papal thriller "Conclave" (in theaters now). Light spoilers ahead! Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of ...
The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.. It occupies 55 rooms: the Borgia Apartment (apartment of Pope Alexander VI) on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, the two floors of the Salette Borgia, a series of rooms below the Sistine Chapel, and a series of rooms on the ground floor.
Pope Pacelli spent almost a third of his pontificate in the Pontifical Villas, [53] initiating the custom of receiving pilgrims there: since during the Jubilee of 1950 the large crowds of pilgrims forced him to return to Rome for audiences, [53] in 1957 he wanted an audience hall built in the garden of Villa Cybo, which was inaugurated in 1959 ...