{"id":57104,"date":"2016-09-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2016\/09\/06\/the-brazilian-sculpture-in-the-vatican-gardens-2\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T06:00:00","slug":"the-brazilian-sculpture-in-the-vatican-gardens-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2016\/09\/06\/the-brazilian-sculpture-in-the-vatican-gardens-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brazilian sculpture in the Vatican Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the pope inaugurated a bronze statue of the patron saint of Brazil, Our Lady of Aparecida, in the heart of the Vatican Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture is a gift from the Embassy of Brasil to the Holy See and the Archdiocese of Aparecida.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis and a small group of people joined Pope Francis who, in a very grave tone, asked them to pray for Brazil:<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'I invite you to pray so that Our Lady continues to protect Brazil, and the Brazilian people, in this sad moment.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The unstable political status quo in Brazil worries the pope. He even sent a personal letter to ex-president Dilma Rousseff, who was undergoing impeachment at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The pope also raised doubts about the trip to Brazil he had promised back in the 2013 WYD in Rio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'In 2013 I said I would come back in 2017: I don't know if that's possible, but at least I will have her close to me, here.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The Pope finished this short ceremony by saying a Hail Mary, and he also asked the participants to sing the traditional song that is always sung in the Shrine of Aparecida.<\/p>\n<p>AG<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nVM<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:AQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 6, 2016. The pope asked for prayers \"in this sad moment\u00e2?\u009d for Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/aTblmcJk_J4","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bstatuaaparecidaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104"}],"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=57104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}