ITALIAN SENATE TO DONATE BRONZE SCULPTURE TO POPE

VATICAN CITY, JUL 6, 2000 (VIS) - According to a communique from the Vatican Museums which was published yesterday afternoon, "on the occasion of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the senate of the Republic of Italy wished to donate a large bronze sculpture entitled 'The Ascension' to Pope John Paul. The work by Cecco Bonanotte will be placed in the Vatican Museums at the entrance to the Pavilion of Carriages."

The sculpture will be put in place tomorrow, July 7, at 10:30 a.m. Scheduled participants include, among others, Nicola Mancino, president of the Italian senate, Cardinal Edmund Casimir Szoka, president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and Francesco Buranelli, regent director general of the Vatican Museums. Members of the delegation from the senate will be received in a private audience afterwards by Pope John Paul.

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