The works on display comprise a visual and historical tour through sacred art and portraits from the Renaissance and Baroque ...

Another renowned piece is the “Portrait of Maffeo Barberini,” a work by Caravaggio painted around 1598. It depicts the future Pope Urban VIII when he was about 30 years old. The painting shows ...

saying that he had had six meetings with Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), who had received him benignly. Cardinal Zoller, before leaving for Germany, had informed the Pope that all the heretics ...

The Sharjah Ruler also presented Arabic and English versions of his book, Papal Bull: Pope Urban VIII Pope of the Catholic Church Dated August 14, 1624. In a keynote speech, Dr Sheikh Sultan ...

Pope Urban VIII built the palace on the northern end of town in 1624, to give popes an escape from the sweltering Roman summers. It was enlarged over succeeding pontificates to its present size of ...

The manuscript dates back to August 14, 1624, and includes a papal decree written by Pope Urban VIII and sealed in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Additionally, His Highness gifted his ...

His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, presented a rare original historical manuscript to the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in ...

It is estimated that 700 million old phones are lying around in Europe. The concept known as "urban mining" involves finding materials in existing products, as opposed to "primary" mining where ...