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STORY: UN / ST FRANCIS MANUSCRIPTS
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 25 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Wide shot, exterior of the UNHQ
25 NOVEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, exhibit space
3. Close up, manuscripts in glass cases
4. Pan left, from one case to another
5. Close up, open manuscript
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“St. Francis created this group of young people who had this idea you know – embracing poverty in order to be able to help others – to be able to feel compassion for others. That’s where he got his compassion for lepers and all these sick people, for the poor people and he gave everything away.”
7. Tilt down, detail from a manuscript
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“The oldest document is the Papal bull. The bull is really important document that the Pope signs. It is a bull of the foundation of the order of St. Francis. That is 1220. So that’s almost 800 years ago. And then there is another papal bull in 1223 which is the approval of the rules of this new group that St. Francis founded, which later on became Franciscans, or the Order of Friars Minor. That’s the official name of the original Franciscan Order.”
9. Various shots, Papal bull
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“Some of these very important documents were in restauration in a monastery in the north of Italy, not far from Milan, Pralia, and you know before returning them to the convent in Assisi it was decided that we should probably share – we should rather share these very important documents to the world.”
11. Various shots, details from manuscripts
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“So many museums wanted to get these documents for temporary expositions of three months or six months, everywhere from Europe to Australia to United States and yet the Franciscans – the custodians of these documents and the city of Assisi have decided to send them to the United States. There are several reasons for that. And after the exhibition in the United States – at the United Nations and Brooklyn, they will be brought back to Assis and perhaps will never come out again.”
13. Close up, racked focus, detail from a manuscript
14. Wide shot, a manuscript in a case
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“I think this values of development and embracing the poverty […] as a form of compassion and equity and brotherhood with others, I think these are values that hopefully this exhibition will… at least probably kind of wake up in us because sometime we are not very aware that actually we ourselves in the way we behave, in the way we consume are also questions of solidarity.”
16. Various shots, manuscripts
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“The patterns of consumptions are very different. There are people who consume too much and there are billions of people who have hardly nothing – I mean anything. So that is where I think we come in with the message to this post 2015 development agenda.”
18. Various shots, manuscripts
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“He will certainly address the General Assembly, that will be the heart of his visit, if it ever happens, so this is also one of the purposes of why we decided to bring these manuscripts to the United Nations. The United Nations is the heart of the international community where all the countries are members. Also you know, as a form of contribution. The Holly See believes that the United Nations is a valid forum for all these international questions going on still.”
20. Various shots, manuscripts
Thirteen medieval manuscripts from the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi left Italy for the first time in 700 years. The documents are currently being displayed at United Nations headquarters. They will be later shown to the general public at Brooklyn Borough Hall until mid-January.
St. Francis was born into a wealthy family of a merchant in Assisi. After being wounded in a battle, he chose to give up his prosperous, worldly life and live in poverty, preaching peace and respect for all forms of life.
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“St. Francis created this group of young people who had this idea you know – embracing poverty in order to be able to help others – to be able to feel compassion for others. That’s where he got his compassion for lepers and all these sick people, for the poor people and he gave everything away.”
There is no saint’s handwriting in manuscripts. Historians think that he most likely dictated his writings.
Among the artefacts there is also collection of medieval texts called “Canticle of the Sun,” a praise to the Lord for such creations as “Brother Fire” and “Sister Water.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“The oldest document is the Papal bull. The bull is really important document that the Pope signs. It is a bull of the foundation of the order of St. Francis. That is 1220. So that’s almost 800 years ago. And then there is another papal bull in 1223 which is the approval of the rules of this new group that St. Francis founded, which later on became Franciscans, or the Order of Friars Minor. That’s the official name of the original Franciscan Order.”
Over the last five months manuscripts were restored in a monastery in the Veneto region of Northern Italy .
The monks have repaired the fissures of the parchment with Japanese vegetable fibre or a bovine membrane. They have consolidated the ink and the colourful paintings through a starch gel.
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“Some of these very important documents were in restauration in a monastery in the north of Italy, not far from Milan, Pralia, and you know before returning them to the convent in Assisi it was decided that we should probably share – we should rather share these very important documents to the world.”
However, the Franciscians of the Sacred Convent of St. Francis in Assisi have limited sharing the documents to two exhibitions in New York after which they will be returned to their library after January.
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“So many museums wanted to get these documents for temporary expositions of three months or six months, everywhere from Europe to Australia to United States and yet the Franciscans – the custodians of these documents and the city of Assisi have decided to send them to the United States. There are several reasons for that. And after the exhibition in the United States – at the United Nations and Brooklyn, they will be brought back to Assis and perhaps will never come out again.”
Archbishop Auza hopes the exhibition will inspire people to adopt values propagated by St Francis.
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“I think this values of development and embracing the poverty […] as a form of compassion and equity and brotherhood with others, I think these are values that hopefully this exhibition will… at least probably kind of wake up in us because sometime we are not very aware that actually we ourselves in the way we behave, in the way we consume are also questions of solidarity.”
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“The patterns of consumptions are very different. There are people who consume too much and there are billions of people who have hardly nothing – I mean anything. So that is where I think we come in with the message to this post 2015 development agenda.”
Another reason to display the manuscripts at the United Nations is the possible Pope Francis’s visit to the United Nations in 2015.
SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Bernardito Auza, Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations:
“He will certainly address the General Assembly that will be the heart of his visit, if it ever happens, so this is also one of the purposes of why we decided to bring these manuscripts to the United Nations. The United Nations is the heart of the international community where all the countries are members. Also you know, as a form of contribution. The Holly See believes that the United Nations is a valid forum for all these international questions going on still.”
In Assisi, Some six million people a year visits saint’s grave at the St. Francis’s basilica in Assisi. 40 percent of them are Americans.
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