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Being a language nerd I've tried very hard to find these in Vatican City, but unfortunately I'm pretty sure there aren't any available to regular tourists. (Sid
by cguess 6y ago
Being a language nerd I've tried very hard to find these in Vatican City, but unfortunately I'm pretty sure there aren't any available to regular tourists. (Side note: the gift shop at the Vatican also doesn't sell bibles, which I find even weirder.)
- cointreau 6y agoI...did not know that. I’m legitimately amazed. That’s like if Disneyland didn’t sell any books about Disney or something.
- cbm-vic-20 6y agoThat made me wonder what version of the bible would be sold in the VC. Looks like the "official" bible of the RCC is the "Nova Vulgata"[1]- and that was only declared the official version in 1979, revised in '86. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Vulgata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Vulgata
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Looks like the "official" bible of the RCC is the "Nova Vulgata" That's the official Latin Bible, which has a special role given that Latin remains the oficial language of the Holy See, but since 1943 the new official Bibles in local languages have not been based on the official Latin translation (before the Nova Vulgata, the Clementine Vulgate of 1592), so the Nova Vulgata is not really the singular official Bible of the Catholic Church the way the Clementine Vulgate was before Divino afflante Spiritu [0] (e.g., the official American English Bible, the NAB, was first published and adopted in 1970, before the Nova Vulgata, and has since bien revised in 1986 and 2011.) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divino_afflante_Spiritu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divino_afflante_Spiritu
- linksnapzz 6y agoThese are almost certainly ATMs for the Institute for The Works of Religion; essentially a private bank for the Holy See & its employees. Those ATMs may not be in publicly accessible. I’ve looked too.