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“Music at the Museums”, a series of concerts organized by the Directorate of Museums and Cultural Heritage, will begin on 27 February and continue until 22 November. Concerts will be held at the Vatican Museums and at the Castel Gandolfo Museum Complex.
On 10 September, two young students from Villanova University, Pennsylvania, began an internship at the Internet Service Provider Office of the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems and at the Directorate of Museums and Cultural Heritage.
The Garden and Environment Service of the Governorate of Vatican City State has prepared and installed the floral decoration that adorns the Holy Door. With great skill and passion, eight members of staff decorated the famous Door, through which millions of pilgrims will walk, in the course of the Holy Year.
The Bodies of Government have donated cymbals and a bass drum to the Musical Band of the Gendarmerie Corps as a token of recognition for their generous dedication to spreading the beauty of music throughout the world.
“Forty-one years of history of the Patrons of the Arts of the Vatican Museums are the result of a common journey”, Sr. Raffaella Petrini, General Secretary of the Governorate of Vatican City State, said in her greeting to the annual meeting of the Chapters of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums held at the Taylor Education Center in New Orleans on Sunday afternoon, 22 September, the second to last day of her visit to the United States of America.
On Tuesday, 4 June, Sister Raffaella Petrini, General Secretary of the Governorate of Vatican City State met with Joseph Simon Donnelly, Ambassador of the United States of America to the Holy See, at the Offices of the Governorate. The Diplomat was accompanied by Paul Furgiule, Deputy Facility Manager & Post Occupational Safety and Health Officer (POSHO), Andrea Battilocchi, Supervisory Engineer and by Alyce Ahn, Political and Economic Officer of the Embassy.
During Holy Week, a considerable commitment is undertaken to decorate St. Peter's Square with flowers and plants. The Garden and Environmental Service of the Governorate of the Vatican City State is responsible for this, with the collaboration of Dutch master florists. And it is precisely from Holland, as well as from Italy, that many of the flowers originate that will adorn the Square during the most important liturgical time of the year, Easter. Rafael Tornini, head of the Garden and Environment Service, describes this in an interview on www.vaticanstate.va.
On Thursday morning, 27 February, the Governorate of Vatican City State signed an important Protocol of Cooperation with the Customs and Monopolies Agency of the Italian Republic at the Agency's headquarters in Piazza Mastai, Rome. The agreement, which is aimed at revitalizing customs cooperation, was signed by Mr. Roberto Alesse, Director of the Customs and Monopolies Agency, and by Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, President of the Governorate.
The Governorate of Vatican City State is committed to the promotion of institutional communication.
The launch of the new website,www.vaticanstate.va, and the creation of an online quarterly magazine, titled, “From the heart of the State – The Governorate shares its news”, are part of this commitment.
In its ongoing effort to update and digitize its communication, the Governorate of Vatican City State has launched a YouTube channel: Governatorato_SCV.
The institutional website, www.vaticanstate.va , which has been available in Italian, Spanish and English, as of 13 September, has been expanded to include a version in French.
The Governorate of Vatican State has inaugurated its X (Twitter) account, aimed at informing the public on its activities.
The creation of the account, “Governatorato SCV”, has the aim of reaching people and bodies that primarily use social media to get their information, and strengthening wide-ranging communication to make the activities of the Governorate known.
The topic of artificial intelligence is often “perceived as ambiguous: on the one hand, it generates excitement for the possibilities it offers, while on the other it gives rise to fear for the consequences it foreshadows”, Pope Francis said in his address at the G7 Session on Artificial Intelligence, in Borgo Egnazia, Puglia, on Friday, 14 June.
As the Jubilee approaches, the Papal Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls is in need of restoration works to ensure that pilgrims can visit the complex in complete safety. To this end, the Governorate of Vatican City State and the Heydar Aliyev Foundation of Azerbaijan, signed an agreement titled ,“The Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls - Jubilee 2025”, on Wednesday morning, 11 September. Under the Agreement, which was signed by Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, President of the Governorate of Vatican City State, and Anar Alakbarov, Assistant to the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Executive Director of the Foundation, the crucial restoration works will be funded by the Foundation.
The Postal and Philately Service under the Directorate of Telecommunications and Information Systems, informs that the joint postal issue between the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the Vatican City State, celebrating the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, scheduled for Sunday, April 27, has been temporarily suspended until further notice. The canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis itself had to be suspended in mourning of the death of our Holy Father Pope Francis.
The conditions and needs of the sick, in the eyes of a throwaway culture, may not respond to rigid and callous canons of profit and productivity. As a consequence the ill can be easily marginalized, especially in modern society. On April 5 and 6 physicians, health care professionals together with patients and volunteers celebrated the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers for this Holy Year.
A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars: Exploring Wonder, Beauty, and Science, published in February 2025, is the title of the latest book by Brother Guy Consolmagno. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, Brother Consolmagno has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree from MIT, as well as a PhD in planetary sciences from the University of Arizona. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1989, and was appointed Director of the Vatican Observatory by Pope Francis, in 2015.
The Musical Band of the Gendarmerie Corps, directed by Stefano Iannilli, and the Musical Band of the Italian Military Navy, directed by Ship Commander, Antonio Barbagallo, will hold a concert on Friday, 25 October, at 6:00 p.m. in the New Wing of the Vatican Museums. The concert will be the last in the series of concerts titled, “Music at the Museums 2024”.
A nursery school born from “Pope Francis’ concern for the families of Vatican employees, so that they can have an adequate structure to which they can entrust their little ones”. The “San Francesco e Santa Chiara” nursery school was blessed by Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, President Emeritus of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, during its inauguration as the first ever to open within the Vatican Walls. The ribbon-cutting ceremony took place on Monday afternoon, April 14, at its location on Via San Luca.
On Friday morning, 19 July, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga and Sister Raffaella Petrini, respectively, President and General Secretary of the Governorate of Vatican City State, met with H.E. María Leticia Casati Caballero, Ambassador of Paraguay to the Holy see on a farewell visit.
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