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The Vatican issues a coin dedicated to "Mother Earth

By Fernando Beltrán | October 15, 2020
The Vatican's Philatelic and Numismatic Office will put on sale on October 16th a ten euro silver coin for the 50th anniversary of World Earth Day, with the figure of a pregnant woman from Earth, reported Aciprensa.

According to the website of the Vatican office, the coin created by Luigi Oldani "represents a mother carrying the Earth, whom we must care for and love as if she were a daughter, with long ears of wheat in her hair, in a cross reference between past and future that becomes timeless, therefore eternal".

Not remembering the show produced in the Vatican a year ago is very difficult. During the Amazon Synod, the protagonist was undoubtedly the 'Pachamama', an Andean deity, Mother Earth, identified with fertility. Despite the fact that the synod was centered on the Amazon, at the beginning of the synod and during a ceremony in the Vatican gardens some figures were worshipped -or at least it seemed so- that later the Pope himself called 'Pachamama', causing a tremendous scandal.

Later, some young people threw these objects into the Tiber, something that was regretted by several prelates, among them the Holy Father, who celebrated the fact that the police found them a few days later.

Well, what do you want me to say, that the Vatican takes this coin out now sounds, at the very least, like a joke. The same one that took place three years ago when the Vatican, to commemorate the Lutheran reform, dedicated a stamp to the Augustinian monk. That the Vatican would thus honor one of the men who has possibly done the most damage to humanity left not a few Catholics perplexed.

On this occasion, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day (?) is commemorated. And they can't think of anything else but to put a pregnant Indian woman with the Earth as a pregnant child. What a thing.

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