Vatican
City, 18 June 2013
(VIS) – A press conference was held his morning in the Holy See
Press Office to present the initiative “Children's Train: A Journey
through Beauty”. Participating in the presentation were Cardinal
Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture,
and Mr. Mauro Moretti, delegate administrator of the Italian Railway
System.
The
project will be a trip made by 450 children of various nationalities
with their teachers, family members, and volunteers, in a train made
available just for them by the Italian Railway System, starting from
Milan on 23 June and making two stops, in Bologna and Florence,
before arriving at the Vatican train station where they will be
received by Pope Francis himself, who will be awaiting them at the
station.
The
objective of the initiative is to promote the direct experience of
artistic creation, bringing the littlest ones closer to visual
communication and the language of images, from which sprang the idea
of a journey through beauty. During the trip, other educational and
artistic programs dedicated to children will be offered by the
personnel of the Italian Railway System.
“I
focused on the children,” said Cardinal Ravasi, “because I think
that therein lies the root from which we must build a generation of
young persons who still have ... the beauty of creativity—that
doesn't seem old at the start—who aren't already discouraged the
way we are but who are ready to live more the future that awaits
them. Basically, religions have precisely this fundamental purpose:
to teach how to come together, how to continuously declare the
future, that is, hope.”
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