Hungarian antiquarian Győző Vörös received a double award on February 1 in Rome. The academician is the XXV of the Pontifical Academies. he received the Papal Academies Award and the Papal Gold Medal donated by Pope Francis at his festive public meeting. - was brought by vasarnap.hu with reference to Magyar Kurír.
The celebratory session held with the participation of the eleven papal academies was organized this time by the Pontifical Academy of Roman Archeology and the Pontifical Academy of Honoring the Martyrs, in which the great archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi, who was born 200 years ago, was remembered. century he excavated the lost catacombs of Saint Callixtus along the Via Appia Antica.
According to the Magyar Kurír report, the event held in the Palazzo della Cancelleria was attended, among others, by Cardinal Péter Erdő, Primate; Tamás Tóth, secretary of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference (MKPK), consultant of the Pontifical Council for Culture; Norbert Németh, rector of the Pontifical Hungarian Institute (PMI) and Zoltán Ádám Kovács, Hungarian ambassador to Rome.
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth public meeting, Pope Francis sent a letter to Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Coordinating Council of the Pontifical Academies. In his letter, the Holy Father emphasized that the meeting is of fundamental importance in terms of the dialogue between the academies and the recognition of outstanding young talents in various cultural and professional fields. He then praised the work of Giovanni Battista de Rossi, considered the founder of modern Christian archaeology.
At the end of his written greeting, he said that he would like to encourage those who, following Giovanni Battista de Rossi, devote themselves with great commitment and enthusiasm to archaeological research and to historical and hagiographical studies. He added: that is why he is happy to donate the Papal Gold Medal to the research "Archaeological excavations at Machaerus" led by Professor Győző Vörös, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, the results of which the scientist collected in three monumental volumes about the Jordanian citadel overlooking the Dead Sea.
To encourage the archaeological study of early Christian monuments, he awarded a Papal Silver Medal ex aequo (shared) to Domenico Benoci for his dissertation Christian Inscriptions in Area I of the Catacomb of Saint Callistus, and to Gabriele Castiglia for his monograph Christian Topography of Central and Southern Tuscany.
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