Chocolate Pope - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sat, 19 Nov 2016 23:41:18 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Chocolate Pope - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope given a Noah's Ark made out of chocolate https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/11/22/pope-chocolate-noahs-ark/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:20:07 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=89557 Pope Francis received an unusual gift; A representation of Noah's Ark made out of over 140 kilograms of chocolate. It is a gift of "La banda degli Orsi" [The Band of Bears], which is a charitable organisation in Genoa that supports the city's Giannina Gaslini Pediatric Hospital. The ark, which consisted of more than 140 kilograms Read more

Pope given a Noah's Ark made out of chocolate... Read more]]> Pope Francis received an unusual gift; A representation of Noah's Ark made out of over 140 kilograms of chocolate.

It is a gift of "La banda degli Orsi" [The Band of Bears], which is a charitable organisation in Genoa that supports the city's Giannina Gaslini Pediatric Hospital.

The ark, which consisted of more than 140 kilograms of chocolate, took three days to build, and contains over 50 edible animals Continue reading

Pope given a Noah's Ark made out of chocolate]]> 89557 Image of Pope Francis au chocolat https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/02/11/image-pope-francis-au-chocolat/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:30:39 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=54122 Chocolate artist Mirco Della Vecchia has created the heavenly treat out of a 1.5 ton block of dark chocolate. The statue was presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican last Wednesday The labour of love took the artist and his 20 students a full 30 days to complete. The chocolate pontiff is made out of Read more

Image of Pope Francis au chocolat... Read more]]> Chocolate artist Mirco Della Vecchia has created the heavenly treat out of a 1.5 ton block of dark chocolate. The statue was presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican last Wednesday

The labour of love took the artist and his 20 students a full 30 days to complete.

The chocolate pontiff is made out of dark chocolate from Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. Read more

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