L’AQUILA – One hundred children from primary and lower secondary schools in L’Aquila and the surrounding area will participate with their teachers tomorrow, Friday 24 May, at 11 am, in the conference room of the Town Hall of Palazzo Margherita, representing the institutes involved, at the final event of the first edition of the “At the school of Forgiveness” project, wanted by the 729th edition of the Forgiveness Committee in collaboration with the Municipality of L’Aquila and the Regional School Office to spread the culture of the “first Jubilee in history” to the new generations as well as knowledge of the figure of Pope Celestine V.
The mayor of the Abruzzo capital, Pierluigi Biondi, president of the Forgiveness Committee, will be present at the meeting, with other institutional interlocutors. The project involved around 500 children from over ten comprehensive, state and private schools in the L’Aquila municipal area. But the request for participation went beyond the initial intention of the organizers, who willingly accepted that it should be extended to the territory, including upon request schools from Roccaraso, Capestrano and Scoppito.
During an extraordinary year, in which Forgiveness was cited by Pope Francis in the Bull announcing the 2025 Jubilee and L’Aquila became the Italian capital of culture for 2026, the participating young people worked on three different expressive methods: a 70×100 centimeter panel, containing an illustration with the topic “Forgiveness”; a film, lasting 5 minutes, themed “Memories of Pope Francis’ visit to L’Aquila”; one or more artefacts relating to “The world of Celestine V”.
In the final event, an edited video of their works will be shown to the children and their teachers, which will also be broadcast at the end of August, during the 730th Perdonanza, while they will be able to visit the complex of their drawings and artefacts in a special space of the municipal house , which will remain set up until the next edition of the annual L’Aquila jubilee. the Regional School Office to spread to the new generations the culture of the “first Jubilee in history” as well as the knowledge of the figure of Pope Celestine V.
The mayor of the Abruzzo capital, Pierluigi Biondi, president of the Forgiveness Committee, will be present at the meeting, with other institutional interlocutors. The project involved around 500 children from over ten comprehensive, state and private schools in the L’Aquila municipal area. But the request for participation went beyond the initial intention of the organizers, who willingly accepted that it should be extended to the territory, including upon request schools from Roccaraso, Capestrano and Scoppito.
During an extraordinary year, in which Forgiveness was cited by Pope Francis in the Bull announcing the 2025 Jubilee and L’Aquila became the Italian capital of culture for 2026, the participating young people worked on three different expressive methods: a 70×100 centimeter panel, containing an illustration with the topic “Forgiveness”; a film, lasting 5 minutes, themed “Memories of Pope Francis’ visit to L’Aquila”; one or more artefacts relating to “The world of Celestine V”.
In the final event, an edited video of their works will be shown to the children and their teachers, which will also be broadcast at the end of August, during the 730th Perdonanza, while they will be able to visit the complex of their drawings and artefacts in a special space of the municipal house , which will remain on display until the next edition of L’Aquila’s annual jubilee.
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