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The Gospel of Baghdeda manuscript.

The Gospel of Qaraqosh: 13th-century Syriac manuscript preserved in Vatican Library

Nov 8, 2025

By Georgena Habbaba

A richly illuminated Syriac manuscript dating back to the 13th century known as the Gospel of Qaraqosh was penned in... Read more

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Traces of the first chapel where the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe was first kept within the Old Parish of the Indians.

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A painting of Franciscan missionary Pedro de Gante with Juan Diego, whom the friar baptized along with Diego’s wife in 1525.

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The Blessed Mother and the Child Jesus.

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Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.

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Pope Leo XIV receives Bishop Pierre Goudreault of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (center), Archbishop Richard Smith of Vancouver (right), and Father Jean Vézina, secretary-general of the Canadian bishops (left), in a Nov. 15, 2025, meeting at which the Holy Father gifted dozens of artifacts that originated with Indigenous peoples of the North American country. Leo at the meeting donated 62 pieces from the ethnological collections of the Vatican Museums to the Canadian bishops.

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