Pope Leo XIV receives Ukrainian ‘Eyes of War’ album and symbolic embroidered shirt
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Pope presented with book Eyes of War. (Photo: Vatican News/Facebook)
Pope Leo XIV met with Ukrainian youth in Rome on Sept. 10.
Roman Demush, a priest from Ternopil, presented the pontiff with an embroidered
Ukrainian shirt and Eyes of War, a photo album by Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov.
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Youth Pastoral
Ministry Forum was held in Rome this week and concluded with an audience with
Pope Leo XIV. Demush, deputy head of the UGCC Patriarchal Commission for Youth
Affairs, presented the leader of the Catholic Church with two special gifts on
behalf of Ukrainian youth — an embroidered shirt by a Ukrainian brand and Eyes
of War, a photo album by photographers Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov, who
document Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The embroidered shirt by Ukrainian brand KOLLOS carries
special symbolism. Called Tree of Ukraine, it symbolizes unity. Each Ukrainian
Oblast is embroidered on the shirt. Together, they form a single ornamental
design that comes together as one whole — the Ukrainian state, the brand said.
“Our land. Our roots. Our shared history,” the shirt’s
description reads.
Eyes of War is a documentary photography project by
Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov, who have documented the war since the start of
the full-scale invasion. Published in 2026, the book contains 280 photographs
taken by the Liberovs from 2022 to 2025.
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