Putin, Pope Exchange Gifts after Meeting in Vatican
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis have exchanged gifts following their 45-minute conversation that took place in the Vatican Apostolic Library.
Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told TASS that the Pope received an icon depicting Apostles Peter and Paul, as well as a CD version of Russian director Andrey Konchalovsky’s film Sin about Michelangelo Buonarroti as a gift from the President.
In turn, the Pope presented Putin with a Message for the World Day of Peace 2019, an official medal of the sixth year of Pope Francis' pontificate, marking 100th anniversary of the end of World War I and an etching depicting view of St. Peter’s Square by Giuseppe Vasi, 1774.
The medal bears a quotation from the August 24, 1939 radio address of Pope Pius XII, which reads "Nothing is lost with peace, everything may be lost with war."
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