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Jun 6, 2020 · However, according to a Vatican curator, the Vatican Hill takes its name from the Latin word Vaticanus, a vaticiniis ferendis, in allusion to the oracles, or Vaticinia, which were anciently delivered here.
Aug 4, 2015 · The Vatican remains the home of the pope and the Roman Curia, and the spiritual center for some 1.2 billion followers of the Catholic Church. The world’s smallest independent nation-state, it ...
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Aug 16, 2019 · The Church decided that this name needed to be replaced with the words “God” and “Lord” and so “Yahweh” was stricken from all the passages and the scrolls were kept in the Apostolic archives of the Vatican and hidden from public knowledge as the name of the God was to be known by the Pope only.
Oct 10, 2012 · The 1960s was a decade of change, with protests against racism, war, sexual behavior, the status quo and authority in general. “If that’s going on in the world and in society, that’s bound ...
The Sistine Chapel ( / ˌsɪsˈtiːnˈtʃæpəl /; Latin: Sacellum Sixtinum; Italian: Cappella Sistina [kapˈpɛlla siˈstiːna]) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna ('Great Chapel'), it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481.
1929: The independent state of the Vatican comes into existence. 1934: The first and the only railway station was opened. 1950: Declared a Holy Year by Pope Pius XII. 1943: During World War 2, Vatican city remained neutral and while the German troops occupied the city of Rome, the Vatican City wasn’t occupied.
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December 17, 1965 12:00 AM GMT-5. ‘”THE whole world expects a step forward,” said John : XXIII as he opened the Second Vatican Council in October 1962. When Pope Paul VI formally closed it ...
