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H.Paul Jeffers

Dark Mysteries of the Vatican

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  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    but it also operates like a worldwide corporation
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    were accused of trying to sell works of art falsely attributed to artists such as Michelangelo, Guercino and Giambologna, to art institutions such as the Metropolitan
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    Vatican is both a city and a state
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    “If the Vatican sold all its artworks, they would bring in hundreds of millions of dollars-but only once.
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    It has been calculated that “it costs about $250 million a year to operate the Vatican
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    No nation of Catholics gives more than Americans.
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    For 2004, that total came to $89 million. Of this amount, roughly $27.2 million came from individual dioceses under the terms of canon 1271 of the Code of Canon Law, which obligated dioceses to contribute to the financial support of the Holy See. This means that the 2,883 ecclesiastical jurisdictions in the world gave an average of $10,000 each in 2004…
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    The money comes from…contributions from bishops’ conferences, dioceses, religious orders, individual lay donors, and ‘other entities.’
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    . Peter’s Basilica, are ornamented with gold, silver, precious stones, and the finest marble.
  • mariafedotovskikhцитирует6 лет назад
    major damage suffered by a work of art in St. Peter’s since a German broke two fingers off the statue of a kneeling Pope Pius VI in 1970.
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