Pope: Beauty is a privileged way to approach God

"When faith meets art, a profound harmony is created, since both can and want to speak of God, rendering the invisible visible."Looking ahead to Saturday's meeting with artists, the Pope devoted attention during today's general audience to one of the highest artistic expressions of universal civilization, cathedrals, "the true glory of the Christian Middle Ages." The Pope illustrated the particular characteristics of Romanesque churches, as well as those of the Gothic style, as true 'Bibles in stone'. He recalled the strength and substance of the first, while praising the dynamism of the latter; each of their architectural plans attempted to translate the soul's longing for God into their building s ...

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