Abazović visits Vatican Apostolic Library

Prime Minister Dritan Abazović and his delegation paid a visit to the Vatican Apostolic Library. In honor of the Prime Minister's visit, the Apostolic Library exhibited manuscripts of historical importance for Montenegro.

The first is the correspondence of King Mihailo Vojislavljević of Duklja with Pope Gregory VII, dated 9 January 1078, while the second is the original monumental work 'Church Chronicle' by Archbishop Andrija Zmajević, handed over to the Vatican in 1694 personally by the author, and discovered only in 2021 and 2022. The manuscripts were discovered thanks to Lenka Blehova Čelebić, a historian and philologist from the Charles University in Prague, who discovered the correspondence of rulers of Duklja with three Roman popes during the 11th century.

After the audience with Pope Francis and meetings with Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, the hosts organized a tour of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Gardens.