The Vatican has signed an agreement to return three sculpture fragments that have been part of the Vatican Museums' permanent collection for the past 200 years.
The fragments will be definitively transferred to Athens on March 24 with a special ceremony planned to receive them, officials said in the press release.
Papamikroulis Emmanouil, who attended the signing ceremony on behalf of Ieronymos II, said in a statement that the agreement marked"a historic event," adding that he hoped Pope Francis' gesture would"be imitated by others." He also suggested the move"partially compensates for" traumas resulting from injustices of the past.
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