The Vatican Museums and Tor Vergata hospital have joined forces to encourage more people to donate blood, it was reported on Tuesday.
Under the scheme RossoArte (RedArt), donors at the blood transfusion centre at the teaching hospital in east Rome will receive a voucher giving entry to the Vatican Museums for 4 euros rather than the usual 16 euros and without having to queue, to be used before the end of the year. Organisers recalled the words of Pope Francis during the jubilee for blood donors. "Your actions are the sign of a zeal, of a creativity in charity deriving from a beating heart, powered by the love for people in need," he said.
"It is a nice alliance between blood that generates and fuels life and art that gives us consolation and happiness," Vatican Museums director Antonio Paolucci said.
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