Pio Cristiano Museum

The Good Shepherd, c. 300 at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Rome

The Pio Cristiano Museum is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

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