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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
It's a once-every-quarter-century event that is expected to bring some 32 million pilgrims to Rome and has already brought months of headaches to Romans. Pope Francis will preside over a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica for the formal reading of the papal bull, or official edict, that lays out the spiritual theme of hope for the year. The ...
The Holy See was granted territory in Duchy of Rome by the Donation of Sutri in 728 of King Liutprand of the Lombards, and sovereignty by the Donation of Pepin in 756 by King Pepin of the Franks. The Papal States thus held extensive territory and armed forces in 756–1870. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor by translatio imperii ...
Remains of ancient Papal palace believed to have been found in Rome. July 17, 2024 at 12:01 PM. ROME (Reuters) - The remains of what appears to be a medieval palace where popes lived before they ...
The man behind the mask turned out to be Mattia Villardita, 27, from northern Italy. At the end of the audience, he was introduced to the pope and gave the pontiff a Spider-Man mask.