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SAINTS & ART: May 29 marks more than a liturgical footnote: It’s the day a young priest named Montini began the journey to becoming St. Paul VI.
The Vatican Museums have inaugurated the exhibition “Paul VI and Jacques Maritain: The Renewal of Sacred Art Between France and Italy (1945–1973).” ...
Cadaver Synod, by French artist Jean Paul Laurens, was vastly different from what many papal art pieces looked like. ... The trial was held by Pope Stephen VI in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in ...
For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.
For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.
The finest of the new doors, Giacomo Manzù's Door of Death, was dedicated by Pope Paul VI in 1964. Paul VI went on to set the Vatican on a concerted course of collecting contemporary art.