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VATICAN MUSEUMS: A WITNESS TO UNCHANGING DIVINE BEAUTY

VATICAN CITY, JUN 1, 2006 (VIS) - This morning in the Vatican, the Holy Father
received the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums on the occasion of
their pilgrimage to Rome for the five-hundredth anniversary of the founding of
the Vatican Museums. The Patrons of the Arts is an American association founded
in 1983, that contributes to financing the restoration and maintenance of the
works of art in the Vatican Museums.

The Pope thanked the association for its "continuing interest, which is
motivated not only by a sense of stewardship for the incomparable cultural
patrimony of the Vatican Museums, but also by a generous commitment to the
Church's evangelizing mission."

He continued: "In every age Christians have sought to give expression to
faith's vision of the beauty and order of God's creation, the nobility of our
vocation as men and women made in His image and likeness, and the promise of a
cosmos redeemed and transfigured by the grace of Christ. The artistic treasures
which surround us are not simply impressive monuments of a distant past.
Rather, for the hundreds of thousands of visitors who contemplate them year
after year, they stand as a perennial witness to the Church's unchanging faith
in the Triune God who, in the memorable phrase of St. Augustine, is Himself
'Beauty ever ancient, ever new'."

"May your support of the Vatican Museums," he concluded, "bear abundant
spiritual fruits in your own lives and advance the Church's mission of bringing
all people to the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ, 'the image of the
invisible God,' in Whose Eternal Spirit all creation is reconciled, restored
and renewed."
AC/VATICAN MUSEUMS/PATRONS VIS 060601 (290)

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