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10 FACTS ABOUT VATICAN CITY
Vatican City, a city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy, is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church
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Its Vatican Museums house ancient
Roman sculptures such as the Laocoön and Renaissance frescoes in the Raphael Rooms and the Sistine
Chapel, famous for Michelangelo’s ceiling
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Vatican archives and museum
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Entry into these archives followed by
very precise rules authorized by the Catholic clergy
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The Vatican Museums
were founded by Pope Julius II in the 16th century
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It is said that
the Vatican Museums contain the world's largest collection of art with 9 miles of
pieces, which could wrap four and half times around the Vatican walls
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During his administration, the Vatican campaigned against all
theologians who thought differently to the church
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He oversaw the revision of
the Catholic catechism (summary of religion) after 462 years
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Pope rebuked what was called
the "culture of death" strongly condemns abortion and euthanasia
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Pope has affirmed the church's positions against artificial

birth control, artificial insemination, divorce, sex outside marriage and
homosexual relationships, despite having called for tolerance towards
homosexuals
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Pope did not allow women to
be assigned in the order, after the Church should follow the example of Jesus,
who chose only men to be his apostles
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Pope was against communism, helping in the rapid decline of the
Soviet Union and it sallies in Eastern Europe
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Pope has intervened in many international disputes
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On May 4, 1998, the Swiss Guard Commander, Aloes Estermann, was murdered
under unclear circumstances in the Vatican City
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Estermann had
only been named commander of the Swiss Guard that same day
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It is documented that after Pope Leo came a Pope Joan
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It is claimed that John was in fact female
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Joan was an extremely bright scholar and rose quickly in society
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While pope she became pregnant by her
companion and it is said she gave birth during a procession from St Peter's Basilica
to the Lateran, in a narrow lane between the Colosseum and St Clements’s
church
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The Vatican Bank is the only bank in the world that allows ATM users to select
Latin to perform transactions
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Pope Benedict XVI has been particularly passionate
about reviving the language and purportedly holds many informal conversations
in Latin
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The Vatican's Latin Foundation tries to keep the language relevant by translating
modern phrases into the ancient tongue
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Interestingly, the translations can have
serious consequences
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The Vatican Swiss Guards are trained in a wide range of weaponry and advanced
tactics despite numbering only 135 people, and they are meant to protect the
Pope
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Throughout the middle Ages the Swiss were known as the
most efficient and effective mercenaries and the courts of many noblemen and
monarchs boasted a regiment of Swiss Guards
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The
Swiss Guards at the Vatican must be single Catholic men between the ages of 19
and 30 with Swiss citizenship
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Regarding external protection is responsible Italy
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What has different Vatican from the
world?
Not only does Vatican have its own mail system – with its own Post Office and stamps,
many Romans use its services since it is much quicker than the routine Italian postal
system
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As hard as it may seem to believe, it is true that Vatican has a telescope of its own in
distant Arizona in the US, which helps it with its astronomical research, in view of
increasing light pollution in Rome
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Vatican museums are said to be so prolific that even if one took a minute to look at each
painting in them, it would take 4 years to see them all!
So as you can see, Vatican sure has some very interesting facts about it!

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Today all leadership in the world has the distinction the mayor and deputy but for the state
of Vatican it is different
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As with
Supreme Court justices, he can resign before his death, but that's unlikely
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) Further, as modern medicine improves,
even seriously ill people tend to stick around longer; meaning that a Pope could be alive but
unable to perform his duties for years, as was the case with John Paul II
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A cardinal can take over the Pope's responsibilities as the
Vatican's head of state, but no one else is allowed to carry out his ceremonial duties
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It’s not that
the cardinals are donning masks and repeatedly robbing the bank, it's just that the massive
crowds of tourists make Vatican City a pickpocket's paradise
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So most criminals
are simply marched across the border into Italy, as part of a pact between the two countries
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) Crimes that the Vatican sees fit to try itself—mainly shoplifting in its duty-free
stores—are usually punished by temporarily revoking the troublemaker's access to those

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In 2007, the Vatican issued its first drug conviction
after an employee was found with a few ounces of cocaine in his desk

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The only people who know are some persons who
normally control the state of Vatican
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"The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschild’s of
Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, Credit Suisse in London and
Zurich
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The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations
such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric,
International Business Machines, TWA, etc
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The Vatican has gold worth of 8
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Normally that the state of Vatican because of the very small space can be long
this all that a country has
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But
citizenship in Vatican City isn’t based on being born there – indeed, there isn’t a
hospital in Vatican City so no one is born there
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This citizenship usually ends when the appointment ends
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