Vatican City, 28 March 2014 (VIS) –
This morning a press conference was held in the Holy See Press Office
to present the exhibition Verbum Domini II: “God's Word goes out to
the Nations” is an exhibition that gathers together more than 200
historical findings, texts and rare Bible artefacts that tell the
story of the Bible's journey around the world. The exhibition is
sponsored by the Museum of the Bible and will be held in the
Vatican's Charlemagne Wing from 2 April to 22 June 2014.
The speakers in the conference were
Cary Summers, Chief Operating Officer of the Museum of the Bible, Fr.
Jose Maria Abrego de Lacy S.J., rector of the Pontifical Biblical
Institute, Ambrogio M. Piazzoni, deputy prefect of the Vatican
Apostolic Library, and Msgr. Melchor Jose Sanchez de Toca y Alameda,
under secretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
The works that make up the exhibition
belong to the Green Collection, the Vatican Library, the Vatican
Museums and other institutional and private collections in the United
States and Europe, and include: a page of the Papyrus Bodmer XIV-XV,
a manuscript created around the year 200 which contains much of the
text of the Gospels according to Luke and John; a double page of the
famous Codex Vaticanus, a manuscipt on parchment from the first half
of the fourth century; and the Codex Claromontanus of the fifth and
seventh centuries, valuable evidence of the Gospels translated into
Latin in the Vulgate of St. Jerome.
Entry to the museum is free, and allows
the visitor to travel through time and space, discovering how the
Word of God has gone out to the Nationals, being accessible to
different cultures while remaining faithful to the original Greek and
Hebrew.
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