Pope Leo XIV, Bob Dylan share brief audience at Vatican
VATICAN CITY, Nov 5 — Pope Leo XIV today received Bob Dylan in the Vatican at an audience for which the US folk mu...
Vatican City witnessed an unusual meeting on November 5, as Pope Leo XIV hosted renowned US folk music artist Bob Dylan. The singer-songwriter, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, was 85 years old at the time and was on a tour in Italy. According to Vatican News, the brief audience consisted of greetings and some lighthearted exchanges.
The Pope presented Dylan with a rosary, while the musician gifted him his autobiography. Notably, Leo, the first US pope, referenced a Bob Dylan lyric in the preface of a book about disarmament he published earlier this year. Known for his strongly anti-war stance, Leo had previously clashed with US President Donald Trump over his criticism of the Middle East war.
This was not the first time Pope Leo XIV had met Dylan. In 1997, during a prayer vigil for young people in Bologna hosted by John Paul II, Dylan sang. Bob Dylan, who released his first album in 1963, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016.
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