By CatholicVote | Created at 2024-10-29 18:31:57 | Updated at 2024-10-30 21:38:22
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CV NEWS FEED // The Dicastery for Evangelization is holding concerts and art exhibitions preceding the Jubilee Year of Hope in 2025.
Vatican News reports that a series of concerts will precede the Jubilee Year, starting with a November 3, 2024, concert featuring Dmitri Shostakovish’s Symphony No. 5.
The concert will be performed by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, which was founded by Pope Sixtus V after his bull “Ratione Congruit” established the Congregation of Musicians, according to Davide Mambriani, the curator of concerts and exhibitions for the program titled “Jubilee is Culture.”
The Vatican will also have a display of rare Eastern European icons from the Vatican Museums, in an exhibition at the Church of St. Agnes from December 14, 2024, to February 16, 2025. Vatican Museum director Barbara Jatta called the collection an expression of peace and fraternity, showing that “we are all bearers of the same message.”
Another painting, “The White Crucifixion” by Marc Chagall, will be displayed at the Museo del Corso – Polo museale, from November 27, 2024, until January 27, 2025. On loan from The Art Institute of Chicago, the image depicts Jesus as a Jewish martyr and connects His Crucifixion to the Holocaust.
The Vatican will also hold the annual 100 Nativity displays in Bernini’s colonnade in St. Peter’s Square.
In 2025, the Holy See will participate in Italy’s display at the World Expo in Osaka, Japan, and display the Deposition of Christ by Caravaggio, the only Caravaggio painting in the Vatican Museums.
The Vatican also created a mascot for the World Expo, a blue-haired anime doll named Luce, who wears items representing pilgrims such as mud-stained boots, a staff, and a pilgrim’s cross.
Archbishop Rino Fisichella said that the doll expresses the Church’s desire “to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth,” according to an X post from Catholic TV.
