Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $13,038
16%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 16%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: papalchapel

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Vatican unveils restored papal chapel featuring Michelangelo murals

    06/30/2009 4:10:00 PM PDT · by NYer · 14 replies · 1,155+ views
    cns ^ | June 30, 2009 | Cindy Wooden
    St. Peter's crucifixion is portrayed in a mural by Michelangelo in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to inaugurate the chapel July 4 after a five-year, $4.6 million renovation. (CNS/courtesy of the Vatican Museums) VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Work on the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace was not so much a restoration as a restitution of the pope's prayer space, said the director of the Vatican Museums. Containing the last two murals Michelangelo ever painted, the private papal chapel had been under scaffolding for more than five years; it was...