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    A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY!

    On July 1, 1997, six and a half million FREE people of Hong Kong were sold into slavery. The butchers of Tiananmen have turned China into a vast concentration camp, where public celebration of the Roman Catholic Mass is a criminal offense, punishable by many years of prison. Thousands of Chinese are sentenced to death and executed every year, after the forcible removal of their vital organs, which are sold for hard currency in the lucrative human organs market.
    There are over 250,000 Catholics in Hong Kong; the Catholic religious orders run the school system there. Pray for the martyred Christians of China, for the Christians of Hong Kong and for their deliverance from Communist slavery! --- Michael Olteanu, M.S.

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    Musei Vaticani
    The founding of the Vatican Museums can be traced back to 1503 when the newly-elected Pope, Julius II, placed a statue of Apollo in the internal courtyard of the Belvedere Palace built by Innocent VIII; he brought the statue from the garden of his titular church of St. Peter in Chains. In 1506 the Laocoon was added to the collection, after its discovery on the Esquiline Hill before the eyes of Giuliano di Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti.

    Scores of artifacts were added throughout the next two centuries and the collections were eventually reorganized under Benedict XIV (1740-1758) and Clement XIII (1758-1769). They founded the Apostolic Library Museums: the Sacred (Museo Sacro - 1756) and the Profane (Museo Profano - 1767).

    The Christian Museum, comprising finds from the catacombs that could not be conserved in situ, was founded by Pius IX in 1854 in the Lateran Palace and was moved to the Vatican Museums by Pope John XXIII.

    Pope Pius XI inaugurated in 1932 the definitive seat of the Vatican Picture Gallery (the Pinacoteca), near the monumental entrance of the Vatican Museums.


    The Fabbrica of Saint Peter's - 40 Images

    The Treasury of Saint Peter's - 36 Images

    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum I - 60 Images

    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum II - 45 Images

    The Apostolic Library : Sacred Museum III - 38 Images

    Gallery of Tapestries - 48 Images

    The Gallery of Paintings I - 17 Images

    The Gallery of Paintings II - 14 Images

    The Gallery of Paintings III - 10 Images

    The Gallery of Paintings IV - 15 Images

    The Gallery of Paintings V - 12 Images

    The Pio-Clementine Museum - 17 Images

    The Christian Museum I - 10 Images

    The Christian Museum II - 8 Images

    Museums of Sculptures I - 17 Images

    Museums of Sculptures II - 18 Images

    The Gregorian Profane Museum - 11 Images

    The Gregorian Egyptian Museum - 22 Images

    The Gregorian Etruscan Museum I - 73 Images

    The Gregorian Etruscan Museum II - 56 Images

    The Missionary - Ethnologic Museum - 17 Images

    The Collection of Modern Religious Art - 11 Images


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