VATICAN, JULY 11th
For the first time, after more than 500 years since the foundation of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, two women have joined the workforce of the maintenance workers of the Vatican Basilica.
They are Lisa (26 years old from the province of Padua) and Miriana (21 years old from Reggio Calabria), both with a background in art, they attended the course for decorators, plasterers and bricklayers at the Scuola Arti e Mestieri of the Fabbrica di San Pietro.
The presence of women is not new in the long and ancient experience of work and art of the Fabbrica, but in no case until now had female workers entered the workforce of the sampietrini. In fact, the presence of mosaicists in the Vatican Mosaic Studio annexed to the Fabbrica has been consolidated for years.
In the past, in the 1500s, widows and orphans were employed as workers, almost always owners of a family business inherited from a deceased husband or father, to whom the Fabbrica guaranteed the same economic conditions and working treatment that had been assured to the male head of the family. Over time, women were hired in the various artisan professions of the Fabbrica, but until today none had managed to enter among the cobblestones.
This was announced by Father Enzo Fortunato, Director of Communications of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican.
Communications Directorate of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter
comunicazioneistituzionale@fsp.va
Father Enzo Fortunato O.F.M. Conv. (director)
Antonino Puleo +39 346 360 1403
For the first time, after more than 500 years since the foundation of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, two women have joined the workforce of the maintenance workers of the Vatican Basilica.
They are Lisa (26 years old from the province of Padua) and Miriana (21 years old from Reggio Calabria), both with a background in art, they attended the course for decorators, plasterers and bricklayers at the Scuola Arti e Mestieri of the Fabbrica di San Pietro.
The presence of women is not new in the long and ancient experience of work and art of the Fabbrica, but in no case until now had female workers entered the workforce of the sampietrini. In fact, the presence of mosaicists in the Vatican Mosaic Studio annexed to the Fabbrica has been consolidated for years.
In the past, in the 1500s, widows and orphans were employed as workers, almost always owners of a family business inherited from a deceased husband or father, to whom the Fabbrica guaranteed the same economic conditions and working treatment that had been assured to the male head of the family. Over time, women were hired in the various artisan professions of the Fabbrica, but until today none had managed to enter among the cobblestones.
This was announced by Father Enzo Fortunato, Director of Communications of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican.
Communications Directorate of the Papal Basilica of St. Peter
comunicazioneistituzionale@fsp.va
Father Enzo Fortunato O.F.M. Conv. (director)
Antonino Puleo +39 346 360 1403