A Very Happy New Year from Papal Artifacts! We hope the information we have shared with you in 2018... read more →
The World Day of Peace, Created by Pope Paul VI in 1968 In 1968, Pope Paul VI called on all people of the... read more →
The statue is a depiction of Pope St. Sylvester I who reigned from January 31, 314 until his death on December 31, 335. Father Kunst suspects... read more →
The Featured Image: The Chasuble Worn by Pope John Paul II at the Closing Ceremony of World Youth Day Denver 1993 & Commentary by... read more →
This document is addressed to the Archdiocese of Trent and is sending wishes for a happy new year. It is dated December 29th, 1672 and is signed as... read more →
2018 is the 100th anniversary of the close of WW I. Papal Artifacts acknowledges the Pope who reigned during its entirety. Pope Benedict XV, the most... 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 →
Christmas Details You Might Not Know Thanks to archeology, advanced scriptural scholarship and a better sense of non-biblical... read more →
This is a medal from the Holy Year, 1975, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. In the Catholic tradition a holy year or Jubilee is a great religious... read more →
Much of Christmas Holds Religious Symbolism It’s the most wonderful time of the year when everyone seems a bit happier. With more spring in our steps and more... read more →
A Profound Meditation on Advent, Waiting & Sickness by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)
A Very Personal Advent of One’s Own Joseph Ratzinger... read more →
The message Pope Francis chose for this Christmas holy card is from the Gospel of... read more →
This bronze medal of two Milanese cardinals: Saints Ambrose and Charles Borromeo, predecessors of Giovanni Montini, in the Diocese of Milan, Italy, was issued in 1958. Giovanni... read more →