Cinema

On 26 November 2006, the Foundation, opening up to the seventh art, namely cinema, collaborated with New Line Cinema and Eagle Pictures, together with the Pontifical Council for Culture, the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Vatican Film Library, and the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum" and the Vicariate of the Vatican City, to organize the world premiere of the film Nativity by Catherine Hardwicke in the Aula Paolo VI, in the Vatican.

From 30 March to 26 April 2007, together with the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome and the Episcopal Curia of the Diocese of Avezzano, in collaboration with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and with the Patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, the Foundation presented to the public, in a special exhibition set up at the Museum of the aforementioned Basilica, the famous and precious parchment scroll of the Exultet, dating back to the XI century, a musical and artistic treasure guarded until today in the historical Diocesan Archive of Avezzano.

As part of this cultural and artistic initiative, a scientific conference was held on 21 April 2007 in the Hall of the Popes of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on the theme "The Aveet Extras: historical, editorial and musical aspects ”, followed by a Sacred Action by Gregorian, Ambrosian and Beneventan chant, performed in the same basilica by the Nova Schola Gregoriana and Schola women “In Dulci Jubilo ”of Verona, directed by Alberto Turco.