The artifact presented here is a collection of bronze currency from the Avignon period of the Papacy. It is not clear at what point in that 70 year period this particular... read more →
The Papal Artifacts’ Collection is primarily dedicated to artifacts connected to the papacy. Individual popes, their biographies and multiple items belonging to them, including first and second class relics,... read more →
Engraving is an art form that flourished in the 17th century. It is made in one of two ways: either by incising the image into a surface, and the... read more →
This is currently one of the oldest items in the Collection. It is the actual lead seal, the bulla from a document known as a papal bull. The... read more →
The word, bull comes from the Latin, bubble. It is the lead seal that is appended to the end of a document acting as the signature of the pope.... read more →
This hand-carved wooden reliquary from the 1600’s contains a substantial relic of St. Deusdedit who reigned from 615-618. The relic itself is one of the oldest items in the... read more →
This very beautiful reliquary containing a bone fragment of Pope Victor I marks the earliest relic of the Papal Artifacts’ Collection. The date of birth of Pope St. Victor is unknown,... read more →
The Papal Artifacts’ Collection is primarily dedicated to artifacts connected to the papacy. Individual popes, their biographies and multiple items belonging to them, including first... read more →
“Once the idea is introduced that one may take the life of a person because he is not useful to the state, then it will not be long before... read more →
This year, July 25, 2018, is the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Bl. Paul VI’s controversial encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s traditional teaching against the use... read more →