During a press conference on Tuesday November 12th, 1996, Cardinal Roger Etchegerary, presented the official logo for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. The logo is a visual sign of the great event which concludes a millennium. It is immediate communication, a mark to herald and identify all ecclesial jubilee events throughout the world. The selection of a logo was not easy, given the number of participants. Artists and agencies from all over the world presented a variety of excellent graphic designs, significant and detailed. The question was how to transmit clearly and immediately the value and meaning of an event of such exceptional importance. With a group of Art School students a series of meetings and talks were organised in which to examine and discuss and the Tertio Millennio adveniente: the meetings proved to be moments of serious study and catechesis. The author of the logo is, in fact, one of these art students: Emanuela Rocchi, aged 22, a pupil of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato and a committed member of Catholic Action since she was a child. Here is a description of the Logo which is has various components. Within a sphere formed by black capitals letters which read "Jubilaeum A.D. 2000", on a background of a blue circle, representing the earth, there is a cross sustaining humanity on the five continents represented by five doves of different colours. The cross is made up of the same colours as the doves to indicate the mystery of the Incarnation: Christ takes on our human condition, "becoming like us". God enters the history of humanity, redeeming it. A point of light coming from the centre of the Cross reminds us that Christ is the light of the world, He is the Saviour and, as around the border of the blue globe four Latin words "Christ, yesterday, today, forever" indicate, He never changes. The circle formed by the five continents recalls the spirit of solidarity with which the Church desires to celebrate the Jubilee. The bright colours, green, yellow, amber, blue and grey forming a harmonious whole, indicate the joy and peace proper to the Jubilee celebrations.