The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Holy See’s vast film archive, Rome, October 29th, 2019.

In 1896 Pope Lio XIII took part in the Vatican’s first-ever film shortly after the birth of cinema.  Palazzo Borromeo, the splendid Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, celebrated today the 60^th anniversary of the Vatican’s massive archive that contains more than 8,000 films that are related to the Catholic Church and to other socio-religious topics.

What many believe to be the world’s most powerful politician, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, was present at a conference on the 60^th anniversary of the Vatican’s massive film archive (more than 8,000 films) at the splendid Palazzo Borromeo, the seat of the Italian Embassy to the Holy See in Rome.

On hand for the event was what many assume is the world’s most powerful politician, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigano’ of the Vatican’s Academy of Social Sciences and Italian Ambassador to the Holy See Pietro Sebastiani who acted as the event’s host. The anniversary celebrations also included the presentation of the new book, “The Cinema Of The Popes”.

The exquisite Antonio Canova collection at Rome’s central Palazzo Braschi.

Indeed an exquisite collection by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova who died in 1822 in Venice.  The exhibit is on at Rome’s Palazzo Braschi until March 15^th, 2020.