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- ... that a Vatican Hebrew manuscript has been used as a source for analysing and emending modern editions of the Palestinian Talmud?
- ... that the Vatican selected Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
- ... that some Catholics considered Tom Lehrer's "The Vatican Rag" (audio featured) to be blasphemous?
- ... that the final silent film directed by Giulia Cassini Rizzotto was partly funded by the Vatican and featured Italian aristocrats?
- ... that the Second Vatican Council tried to undo the latinization of Eastern Catholic liturgy?
- ... that Sans's boss theme, "Megalovania", was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis?
- ...that the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad, as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John?"
- ...that Clemente Micara was the Vatican’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia?
- ...that in the Vatican's Cortile del Belvedere Bramante created the first monumental formal garden design of the Renaissance?