{"id":81030,"date":"2025-09-19T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=81030"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T11:07:51","slug":"a-lion-in-the-order-of-malta-a-silent-tribute-to-the-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/09\/19\/a-lion-in-the-order-of-malta-a-silent-tribute-to-the-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lion in the Order of Malta: A Silent Tribute to the Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a well-known spot for tourists arriving in Rome, located in the Square of the Knights of the Order of Malta. This spot frequently attracts crowds of curious visitors.<br><strong><br><\/strong>You\u2019ll probably recognized it from the image\u2014the famous keyhole of the old gate, through which you can get a perfectly framed view of St. Peter\u2019s Dome.<strong><br><\/strong><br>However, there is now a new element that tourists are encountering that isn\u2019t quite as familiar. When asked about it, the tourists' answers were sometimes a bit confused:<br><br><em>\"Ah! The little wolf! Yeah, yeah! I don\u2019t know what it is, I thought it was Romulus and Remus\u2019s, but maybe I got it wrong.\"<br><\/em><br>However, there were others who immediately recognize the new figure accompanying the dome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\"Amazing! Now you see the Dome with the lion! I think it\u2019s nice to honor the new Pope this way, to welcome him like this. It\u2019s a beautiful gesture of welcome because this is a spot everyone sees\u2014all the tourists.\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And indeed, this is a tribute that the Order of Malta wanted to offer to Pope Leo XIV: a lion standing upright, walking confidently.<br><br>The artist behind this image is Davide Rivalta, and its presence in the gardens of the Magistral Villa of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is the result of a collaboration between the Order\u2019s ambassador, Antonio Landi, and the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BAM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trans. CRT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a well-known spot for tourists arriving in Rome, located in the Square of the Knights of the Order of Malta. This spot frequently attracts crowds of curious visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":81031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0NmbZYT2t50","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bleoneordenmaltaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bleoneordenmaltaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81034,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81030\/revisions\/81034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}