Thousands mass in Kyiv’s twin city Florence to back Ukraine
Florence, Italy Reuters Thousands of people packed into one of Florence’s biggest squares on Saturday to show their support for Ukraine and listen to a videoed speech from its President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Florence has been twinned with Kyiv since the 1960s, when Ukraine’s capital sent aid to the Tuscan city to help it recover from […]
Pope makes personal appeal in remarkable Russia embassy trip
Vatican City AP Pope Francis went to the Russian Embassy on Friday to personally “express his concern about the war” in Ukraine, in an extraordinary, hands-on papal gesture that has no recent precedent. Francis later assured a top Ukrainian Greek Catholic leader he would do “everything I can” to help. Usually, popes receive ambassadors and […]
Restorers uncover new details in a Michelangelo Pieta
Rome, Italy AP A restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details, including the artist’s tool marks, that had been hidden under centuries of dust and wax. Florence’s Museo dell’Opera del Duomo said Wednesday that the cleaning of the Bandini Pieta, which began last year but was […]
Snapshot: Florence, Italy
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Significant Sights: An “unexpected pilgrimage” to the oldest surviving Latin Bible
ROBERTA AHMANSON, in an article first published on Religion Unplugged, writes about a recent trip, first to England and then to Florence, to see a wonder of the ancient (Christian) world…
REFORMATION 500: WHAT CAME AFTER – THE COUNTER-REFORMATION ART OF CARLO DOLCI
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…