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I could not find a single picture of that door anywhere else on the web.
What up with that?
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Fr. Brown, who celebrates early morning mass each Sunday for
the Parish community, noticed the specific link to the Vatican
Observatory. The left-hand door shows a woman representing
the Church, under attack from below but surrounded by light,
with the dome of the church as her crown, reaching toward the
stars. The stars continue on the right-hand door, where Pope
Benedict is portrayed watching over the Church. The fire of
the Holy Spirit descends on him from the stars, while on his
vestments various equations from physics and geometry, and a depiction of
a double helix are engraved. In his hands is a tablet inscribed Deus Caritas
Est, his first encyclical. The artist’s description specifically states that the
stars depicted in the door are a reference to the ‘Specola Vaticana’, as it is
known locally, which was founded by popes and has been located in Castel
Gandolfo since 1935.
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