“Evangeliario di Misericordia” presented to the Pope

Vatican City, 3 December 2015 (VIS) – This morning in the Hall of Popes, the Evangeliario di Misericordia” was presented to the Holy Father. An initiative by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), it is a publication of the four Gospels illustrated with mosaics by the Slovenian artist and Jesuit Maro Ivan Rupnik, who produced the mosaics for the Redemptoris Mater chapel in the Vatican and for the Basilica of Fatima. Intended to commemorate the beginning of the Jubilee of Mercy, the publication also includes a series of introductory texts by the Fr. Alessandro Amapani. The prologue is by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation.