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How this Marc Chagall painting explains Pope Francis' soul

JL;DR SUMMARY Pope Francis had a profound appreciation for Marc Chagall's 1938 painting, 'White Crucifixion,' which depicted the immense suffering of the Jews during the Nazi regime. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Marc ChagallPope FrancisResilienceNazi PersecutionJewish SufferingHopeWhite CrucifixionArt And SpiritualityArgentina Military DictatorshipHoly Year

Places mentioned

Rome, Italy
"Pope Francis examines Marc Chagalls White Crucifixion during its exhibition in Rome on Dec. 8, 2024."
France
"1938 painting, which Chagall, then living in France, produced in reaction to horrifying Nazi crimes against Jews, is a showcase of ordered disorder."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"which is held by the Art Institute of Chicago but not currently on view,"
Argentina
"Born in Argentina, he witnessed firsthand the miseries of military dictatorship in the 1970s."
Israel
"invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse."

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