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A brand new episode of The Popecast is out now, so this edition of Today in Papal History can serve as your visual supplement to some of the incredible items I discussed with Fr. Rich on the show. Enjoy!

A personal letter gifted to Fr. Rich from some lifelong friends of Pope Leo XIV (or “Bob” as he was known to them until his election!)

A relic of Pope St. Deusdedit I (pope from 615-618 AD), enclosed in an exquisitely carved reliquary that dates to the 1600s.

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The personal straight razor of Pope St. Pius X (pope from 1903-1914), handmade in New York City

“The Great Bull” of Pope Alexander III (pope from 1159-1181), the oldest document in Fr. Rich’s collection.

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The galero of Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who would be elected Pope Pius XII in 1939

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Two pope-aholics (yours truly and Fr. Richard Kunst) with Pope Leo XIV. How nice of him to visit Minneapolis for the exhibit!

As an added bonus, Today in Papal History marked the occasion, sixteen years ago, that Pope Benedict XVI spoke on St. Albert the Great, mentor to St. Thomas Aquinas, in his Wednesday General Audience:

Above all, St Albert shows that there is no opposition between faith and science, despite certain episodes of misunderstanding that have been recorded in history. A man of faith and prayer, as was St Albert the Great, can serenely foster the study of the natural sciences and progress in knowledge of the micro- and macrocosm, discovering the laws proper to the subject, since all this contributes to fostering thirst for and love of God. The Bible speaks to us of creation as of the first language through which God who is supreme intelligence, who is the Logos reveals to us something of himself.

St. Albert the Great, pray for us!

Rare Treasures from the Papal Household

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