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Holy Father, on 23 June, 1973 your Compassion-Light blessed the modern earth by unveiling a collection of contemporary paintings and sculpture. The minds, not to speak of the hands of modern artists may not know what you have done for them and for the entire world, but their souls know what you have done. You have unified in a unique manner spirituality’s Illumination-Power and art’s Receptivity-Power. Your illumining utterances about modern art reveal a world of delight not only to artists but also to lovers of art. Here you point out the artist’s search for outer truth and his discovery of inner truth. “It [Modern art] obliges us to get to know it…to read within [it] the soul of the artist or, rather, the contemporary soul, whose interpreter and sensitive mirror the artist becomes whether he realizes it or not.”