#Vatican City News

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स्विस गार्ड नहीं लड़ते कोई भी जंग, फिर भी खतरनाक हथियारों से रहते है लैस; करोड़ों में मिलती है सैलरी

Vatican City News: दुनिया के सबसे छोटे देश वेटिकन सिटी को धार्मिक और सांस्कृतिक धरोहर के लिए जाना जाता है। यह जगह सेंट पीटर बेसिलिका, सिस्टीन चैपल और वेटिकन म्यूजियम जैसी ऐतिहासिक इमारतों के लिए प्रसिद्ध है। लेकिन क्या आप जानते हैं कि इस छोटे से देश की सुरक्षा का जिम्मा एक खास सैन्य दल संभालता है, जिसे स्विस गार्ड कहा जाता है। खास बात है कि यह सैन्य दल कोई लड़ाई नहीं लड़ता, इसके बावजूद सैनिकों की…

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"No fault of mine!"

prime ministery of italy canine health "hasn't walked"

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Joe Rogan on Vatican City 🤔

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Vatican Museums Opens Ancient Roman Necropolis to the Public

The site was previously only accessible to scholars and specialists.

The Vatican Museums has newly opened to the public an ancient necropolis stocked with carved marble sarcophagi and bone-filled open graves of everyday ancient Romans.

The word necropolis comes from the Greek expression for “city of the dead.” These “cities” grew up alongside roads outside the urban center due to laws forbidding cremation and burial of the dead inside city limits. Funerary practices and rites are preserved especially clearly in the necropolis that extends along the Via Triumphalis (a Roman road now known as the Via Trionfale), with burial sites accompanied by eye-popping Roman frescoes and mosaics.

Previously, the necropolis was accessible only to certain groups of scholars and specialists. It is now open to the public via the new Saint Rose Gate entrance, inaugurated with the exhibition “Life and Death in the Rome of the Caesars.”

How extensive is the archaeological area?

It extends nearly 11,000 square feet. The size of the necropolis is not as extensive as some other Roman burial sites, but its importance lies in its proximity to one of the most significant religious sites in Christianity.

What is known about particular people who are buried there?

According to archaeologists, no less than the tomb of St. Peter himself is located in the Vatican Necropolis.

But in general, “Here, we have represented the lower middle class of Rome’s population,” said Leonardo Di Blasi, an archaeologist with the Vatican Museums, in a video on Euro News. “They are essentially slaves, freedmen, artisans of the city of Rome.” Some were the property of the emperor, and are indicated to have been the “servant of Nero.”

One of them was a man named Alcimus, who was the set director for the downtown Theater of Pompeii, the most important theater of the period. Another was a horse trainer who worked at the chariot races.

One young boy is interred there, according to the Catholic News Service, marked by a sculpture of a boy’s head accompanied by an inscription reading “Vixit Anni IIII Menses IIII Dies X,” Latin for “He lived four years, four months, and 10 days.”

How did this ancient burial ground come to light?

The Vatican burial grounds were first explored in the 1940s at the request of then Pope Pius X, who wanted to be buried near the grave of Peter the Apostle. The dig revealed numerous mausoleums and tombs.

The newest part of the burial ground was revealed through an infrastructure project in 2003, as the Vatican excavated for a new multilevel employee parking garage.

What happened when the Vatican discovered these newest burial grounds?

The department of the Vatican that was overseeing construction of the parking garage, intent on meeting its deadline, was accused of trying to conceal the find, Giandomenico Spinola, an archaeologist and deputy artistic-scientific director of the museums, told the Catholic News Service. It was only when journalists publicized the discovery that he and his colleagues were invited in to advise.

When were the bodies there buried? How have the tombs been so well preserved?

Bodies were interred in this burial ground between the first century B.C.E and the fourth century C.E., and organic remains have vanished. A number of the graves, including their tombs and decorations, including frescoes, mosaic floors, and marble-carved inscriptions, were fortuitously preserved by a series of mudslides in the area.

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Rome Shenanigans Part 2!

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link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/baldurs-gate/astarion-has-breached-the-vatican-baldurs-gate-3-has-sold-2-copies-in-vatican-city-says-larians-director-of-publishing/

WTF IS THIS ARTICLE???!!!

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i know that new rome/san fransico bay has like a demigod safe area where people have houses, and live like normal lives, even up till their old age, but I wish they established some estates like that in ACTUAL rome, like I don't see why not? I know rick only did this because the story has to take place in america, but it would be so cool if some of the roman demigods, lived in actual rome, and went to college there (instead of 'new rome university' it could be old rome university)

I know according to the pjo logic, living in greece/rome or even going there, is extremely dangerous because that's a target for monsters, but it's not as though they are safe elsewhere. especially if they're a big three kid, they'd be tracked no matter what. if new rome had instilled a safety border in america, then why can't they do the same in rome?

all they need to do is worship the roman gods, and ask them to enchant a safety protection charm in a slightly deserted land of rome (which isn't even necessary because mortals can't see demigod stuff unless they have clearsight, this is just for extra safety).

Like there's no way you could tell me that jason if he didn't die wouldn't want to settle down in rome. He was THRILLED when they visited, and he's a roman history freak, he would love it there.

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I wonder what the implications of Godzilla nesting in Rome are for the catholic church

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Transgender activists and allies on Monday decried the Vatican's new doctrine against gender-affirming surgery as "hurtful" and devoid of the voices and experiences of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people, especially in its distinction between transgender and intersex people. "The suggestion that gender-affirming health care — which has saved the lives of so many wonderful trans people and enabled them to live in harmony with their bodies, their communities and (God) — might risk or diminish trans people's dignity is not only hurtful but dangerously ignorant," said Mara Klein, a non-binary, transgender activist who has participated in Germany's church reform project. "Seeing that, in contrast, surgical interventions on intersex people — which if performed without consent especially on minors often cause immense physical and psychological harm for many intersex people to date — are assessed positively just seems to expose the underlying hypocrisy further," Klein said. The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery as well as surrogacy as grave violations of "human dignity," putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that it says rejects God's plan for human life.

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TBH it is so wild seeing so much international support for Palestine right now because I was first exposed to the Palestinian tragedies literally eleven years ago when I was a freshman in high school. News about the attacks by Israeli colonizers were and are literally yearly events during Ramadhan i.e. the holiest month in the Islamic world.

Palestine has always been in my heart and in my head ever since.

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Uh-Oh!

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TIL that Rockefeller Center has been putting up Christmas trees for 49 years longer than the Vatican has

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The Sistine Chapel

The Sistine Chapel is undoubtedly one of the greatest artistic achievements of mankind!

Michelangelo painted this ceiling fresco between 1508 and 1512, creating a cornerstone work of High Renaissance Art.

The artist then returned to paint the Last Judgement (1536-1541).

Most experts agree that Michelangelo depicted his own face in the flayed skin of Saint Bartholomew in the monumental work.

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Pope Francis sends winter clothing, aid to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria

Pope Francis has sent 10,000 thermal shirts to earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria, where millions are sleeping outdoors in below-freezing temperatures. As Justin McLellan reported for the Catholic News Service.

Two 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes devastated the region Feb. 6, killing more than 40,000, according to figures released Feb. 15.

According to the Vatican, the winter clothing was personally transported to the port of Naples, some 115 miles south of Rome, by Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, Feb. 14. 

The shirts arrived in Turkey on Feb. 17 and delivered to the Kilis refugee camp in southern Turkey, which has hosted refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria since 2012 and currently holds some 60,000 people.

The Vatican said Francis also sent an undisclosed amount of financial aid to the apostolic nunciature in Syria to support the Syrian people "already exhausted by so many years of war and now by the devastating earthquake."

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay said that over 1 million people in Turkey are living in temporary housing facilities, such as tents and shipping containers, as of Feb. 11. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, estimated that as many as 5.3 million people could be left homeless in Syria as a result of the earthquakes.

(image from Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq in 2021 and shows the flag of Vatican City)

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The world has fallen to vampires, and there's only one safe place left in Mark Millar's Vatican City

Dark Horse Comics and famed creator Mark Millar have a new tale of vampiric survival horror to tell, in 2025’s Vatican City.