The modern Games room is devoted exclusively to Pierre de Coubertin, the man credited with organising the modern Olympics in the 1890s, again in the name of peace among nations, as well as designing its interlocking ring symbol.

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The ring is a symbol of the pledge that they will have made: to remain sexually pure until marriage.

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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, then presented him with the symbol of his authority the Ring of the Fisherman.

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