The Vatican’s street art vignette for 3rd week of Lent aleteia.org
The Vatican is continuing to release original Catholic art each week until Easter. Organized by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, each piece features Pope Francis taking part in activities related to the 2024 Lenten theme of his message: “Through the desert God leads us to freedom.”
The artworks all come from the talented hand of Italian street artist, Maupal, or Mauro Pallotta. Muriel Fleury, head of communications for the dicastery, explained that Maupal was selected because of his previous street art featuring the Pope. She said that they hoped to “break away from a classical presentation” to give Christians a new perspective and broaden their horizons.
The first week of Lent saw a painting of Pope Francis pushing a wheelbarrow bearing a sack labeled “faith” through the desert. The Pope has to be careful guiding the wheelbarrow’s way, as the narrow path is the only space in the desert not covered in pointy nails.
In the second week of Lent’s artwork, Pope Francis reached over a barbed-wired cement wall to rescue prisoners from captivity as they escaped by “fear” and “hate.”…
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