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Six Masterpieces from the Vatican Museums are Reproduced for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles

The Last Judgment, The Creation of Adam, and Original Sin and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, works by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, the classical Roman statues of Apollo Belvedere and Augustus of Prima Porta, and Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens - these are the masterpieces from the Vatican Museums that are reproduced and displayed at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, California. The frescoes by Michelangelo and Raphael are displayed in 2-D lightboxes, while the statues are presented as 3-D holographic displays.

Ten Years after the Earthquake that Devastated Accumoli, Amatrice and Arquata del Tronto

Pope Francis sent Vatican firefighters and gendarmes to assist the population

It was 3:36 a.m. on 24 August 2016 when a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck the central Apennine mountain range, near the border between the regions of Lazio, Umbria, Marches and Abruzzo. The epicentre was located between Accumoli and Amatrice, towns that were devastated along with Arquata del Tronto.

A Day at the Vatican Post: the Outbound Gateway to the World

Interview with Stefano Rossi and Ermanno Croci, operators of the Outbound Mail Department of the Governorate’s Postal and Philatelic Service

Just steps away from Bernini’s Colonnade in St. Peter’s square is a place where, every day, thousands of fragments of people’s lives—postcards, letters, parcels and registered mail—begin their journey to every corner of the globe. This is no ordinary post office: it is the Post Office of the smallest State in the world.

Bishop Vincenzo Viva presides over the Solemnity of Saint Clare of Assisi at the Poor Clare Monastery in Albano

Poverty lived with joy

“The acceptance of frailty as an instrument for personal sanctification and as a means through which God can act had, for Clare, a very precise name: poverty lived with joy.” With these words, Bishop Vincenzo Viva of Albano presided over the concelebrated Eucharist on the feast day of Saint Clare of Assisi on Tuesday afternoon, 11 August, at the Poor Clares’ Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, located within the territory of the Pontifical Villas in the town of Albano.

The Mater Ecclesiae Monastery Garden Becomes 100% Organic

The history and practices of sustainable cultivation in the Vatican Gardens

In the Vatican Gardens, next to the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, lies a small vegetable garden whose history stretches back to the Middle Ages. It was Pope Nicholas III Orsini who, when he transferred the papal residence from the Lateran to the Vatican between 1277 and 1280, also commissioned an orchard and a proper viridarium [elegant garden], enclosed within the new walls: a productive space that also helped supply the papal kitchen.