Raphael

Pope at Mass celebrates archangels who accompany us on our journey

Celebrating the feast day of the three archangels, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Pope Francis said we share their vocation “cooperating together in God’s salvific design”. Speaking during the homily at Mass in the Casa Santa Marta, he reflected on the Collect for the Day in which we sing the Lord’s praises in the sight of angels. Angels, Pope Francis said, are [...]

The Vatican apostolic library going ever more public

An illustrated4th-century codex of Virgil.Its illustrations were studied by Raphael. Although Pope Nicholas V (1447-55), the first learned Renaissance humanist Pope, established the Vatican Library in 1448 by combining some 350 Greek, Latin, and Hebrew codices inherited from his predecessors with his own book collection and extensive acquisitions, among them manuscripts from the Imperial [...]

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