Pope Francis Orders Return Of Parthenon Figure Sections To Greece
Pope Francis will send back to Greece the three pieces of the Parthenon Figures that the Vatican Galleries have held for a considerable length of time, in the most recent instance of a Western exhibition hall bowing to requests for compensation of curios to their nations of beginning. In reporting the choice Friday, the Vatican named the motion a "gift" from Francis to His Blessedness Ieronymos II, the Standard Christian ecclesiastical overseer of Athens and all Greece, and said it was "a substantial indication of his earnest craving to continue in the ecumenical way of truth."