After Sunday Mass in which the pope prayed for emigrants and refugees not to be excluded from society, Pope Francis unveiled a surprise.<\/p>\n
POPE FRANCIS<\/strong> Then, he went to one side of the square to inaugurate the statue.<\/p>\n There, five emigrants, including a mother who was carrying her sleeping child, revealed the new statue entitled \u201cAngels unaware.\u201d<\/p>\n The spectacular statue is made of bronze and clay. It shows 140 life size statues and each one has the face of a current or past emigrant, all in the same boat.<\/p>\n Its author, artist Timothy Schmalz explained it to the pope.<\/p>\n \u201cIt took one year of non-stop sculpting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n There are Irish who escaped from hunger and refugees from Syria. It also includes a Jew who escaped from the Nazis, and a Mexican who wants to cross the border into the United States.<\/p>\n The benefactor who financed it explained his reasoning to the pope.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is important for you, important to us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Pope Francis looked at it carefully, and then left looking happy with the result.<\/p>\n The statue will be in the square for a few months, and then travel through many countries of the world, representing all emigrants.<\/p>\n Javier Mart\u00ednez-Brocal September 30, 2019. It is 140 emigrants and refugees from all ages: from a Jew escaping from the Nazis, to a Mexican who wants to cross the border into the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hE172AgnMzs","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/besculturaemigranteseng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/besculturaemigrantesint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cSoon I will inaugurate a sculpture. Its theme is based off words from the Letter to the Hebrews: 'Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.'\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTranslated: Carina Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"