(8 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vatican City, Vatican – 8 October 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS 2-6++
"I’m standing here on the top of the Baldacchino of St Peter’s Basilica. This is the canopy that covers the altar, the main altar. Workers have been cleaning it and restoring it for the past several months. It’s the first time in 250 years that it has undergone such a cleaning. It’s due to be reopened to the public at the end of the month. Pope Francis will celebrate a mass here and it will return in all of its splendor. Workers have told us that what has surprised them the most in these months of restoration was to rediscover the gold, the gold plate that covers much of the wood and the copper that will really be able to shine once again. They’ve also told us what they have found here, the remnants of the past works carried out by the ‘sapnpietrini’. These are the workers who care for the basilica. They’ve talked about the nuts and the bit of a sandwich that they found here that might be 200 years old. A shopping list from the 1800s listing bread and tomatoes. Clearly, it fell out of someone’s pocket. Also, the sole of a child’s shoe. This is a possible indication that children were often used to clean this structure because of their agility. It was a trade that was passed down from father to son. And so very often in the inscriptions and the graffiti that you see on some of the pieces of wood, you see the same names repeating themselves, a sign that this was a trade that really went on generation to generation."
2. Tilt down of the top of the baldachin covering the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica
3. Wide of visitors
4. Mid of two cherubs holding a key and a crown at the top of the baldachin
5. Wide of the baldachin covered by the scaffolding needed for the restoration work
6. Inscriptions on the wood at the top of the canopy
STORYLINE:
The restoration of the monumental baldachin over the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica has been completed after months of work.
It’s the first time in 250 years that it has undergone such a cleaning.
It’s due to be reopened to the public at the end of the month.
Pope Francis will celebrate a mass here and it will return in all of its splendor.
During the restoration, workers came across the remnants of the past works carried out by the ‘sapnpietrini’ – the workers who care for the basilica.
They found nuts and a sandwich that might be 200 years old as well as a shopping list from the 1800s.
They also found the sole of a child’s shoe – a possible indication that children were often used to clean this structure because of their agility.
AP video shot by Silvia Stellacci
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