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Vatican to open contemporary art gallery in historic papal library

November 04, 2021

Vatican City, Nov 3, 2021 / 14:00 pm The Vatican’s historic library has created a new space for hosting temporary art exhibitions. Pope Francis will inaugurate the gallery and visit its first exhibit on Nov. 5. The Vatican’s librarian Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça said in a Nov. 3 press release: “The Vatican Apostolic Library

Vatican Library uses space technology to preserve manuscripts

November 22, 2016

The restoration project is part of a recently renewed collaboration with the European Space Agency

Thousands of rare Vatican manuscripts to go online

March 20, 2014

Documents that have up until now only been accessible to scholars to be digitised over the next four years

Vatican Library to shed new light on persecution of Japanese Catholics

January 31, 2014

Scholars study recently discovered documents chronicling effort to suppress the faith

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December 03, 2013

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December 22, 2011

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