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| | Basilica of St. John Lateran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | On the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church, November 9 is the feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran. | | | An inscription on the façade, Christo Salvatore, dedicates the Lateran as Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour, for all patriarchal basilicas are dedicated to Christ himself. | | | The actual date of the gift is unknown but scholars believe it had to have been during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades, in time to host a synod of bishops in 313 that was convened to challenge the Donatist schism, declaring Donatism as heresy. |
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| | Dr. Jack Freiberg |
| | The revival of the Lateran in the second half of the sixteenth century and the visual expression this revival received during the reign of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) are the principal themes of the present study. | | | The Lateran's past glory was of great concern to Pope John XXIII (1958-63) who offered as one of the reasons for his choice of name the fact that "it is the solemn name of innumerable cathedrals throughout the world, and first of all the blessed and holy Lateran basilica, our Cathedral." | | | John's actions, undertaken within recent memory, parallel the history of the Lateran during the Counter-Reformation period when a similar renewal of the Church was initiated and the Lateran provided a field for the expression of reform ideology. |
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| | Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran, mother of all churches |
| | We celebrate today the Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran in Rome because it is the head and mother church of all churches in the world. | | | Perhaps we could say that the many times the Basilica suffered destruction of some kind is a symbol of the attacks on the Church and the hatred of some for the Church. | | | At one time the Holy Stairs which is nearby was also in the Lateran, the stairs in Pilate's house on which Jesus is said to have walked during his trial. |
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| | Lateran Councils |
| | The Second Lateran Council (1139) was convoked by Pope Innocent II to reaffirm the unity of the church after the schism (1130-38) of the antipope Anacletus II (d. | | | When the council began in the Lateran basilica in November 1215 there were present 404 bishops from throughout the western church, and from the Latin eastern church a large number of abbots, canons and representatives of the secular power. | | | The Lateran council therefore dutifully decreed that "in each cathedral church there should be provided a suitable benefice for a master who shall instruct without charge the clerics of the cathedral church and other poor scholars, thus at once satisfying the teacher's needs and opening up the way of knowledge to learners". |
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| | November 9, 2003 Feast of Consecration of St. John Lateran Jn 2/13-22 |
| | John Lateran’s is the Cathedral church of all the world, the Pope& home church. | | | Though the latter is where the Pope lives these days and where most of the big ceremonies are there, for most of Catholic history the Pope lived in the Lateran Palace the conclaves took place there. | | | The Cardinals (then really the parish priests of Rome) would choose one of themselves to be the next bishop and would bring him out on the balcony to get the seal of approval (or disapproval) from the lay people of Rome. |
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| | Catechetical Age - Bulletin Insert from Modern Liturgy 11/97 |
| | Since the pope is the shepherd of the universal church, the Lateran Basilica of St. John is the cathedral church of the world. | | | Several councils were held in the building, including the ones legislating celibacy for priests and communion once a year for the faithful. | | | By commemorating the dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, we pass on that faith to new generations. |
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| | Donation of Constantine |
| | Nevertheless, on the basis of the forged document, the papacy maintained a spiritual dictatorship over most of the Church until the Reformation, and a temporal control of the papal states until, finally, in 1870, the last of the territory was taken over by Italy. | | | There, until the end, let them seek a teacher, where the holy body of the teacher lies; and there, prone and humiliated, let them perform the service of the heavenly king, God our Saviour Jesus Christ, where the proud were accustomed to serve under the rule of an earthly king. | | | The object of this forgery was to antedate by five centuries the temporal power of the papacy, which rests on the donations of Pepin and Charlemagne. |
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| | Lateran Council -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized. | | | any of the five ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic Church held in the Lateran Palace in Rome. | | | Lateran Council -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
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| | The text praises the church: To seint Ion lateran, moste we/ A while there for to be/ to tell of pardouns that is thore. | | | Also Pope Boniface VIII declared "the indulgences of the Lateran church can be counted only by God," and "all these indulgences I confirm.". | | | She apparently makes many visits to the Lateran Church, receiving communion on Sundays, for later in the chapter she states: |
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| | November 9 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section Two (nov9tx2.htm) |
| | Known as "Christianity's first cathedral" and the "mother of all churches", the Lateran Basilica was the first church built by the Emperor Constantine after the Edict of Milan in 313. | | | This staircase was believed to be the one Jesus ascended in the palace of Pontius Pilate. | | | Today we begin a full week of feasts with the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome while tomorrow we celebrate the Feast of Pope Saint Leo the Great, Doctor of the Church. |
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| | CHURCHES OF ROME |
| | Later the church was heavily damaged by fires in 1308 and 1360. | | | Every year, however, the Holy Thursday liturgy, when the Holy Father symbolically washes the feet of priests chosen from various parts of the world, is celebrated in St. John Lateran. | | | case which Jesus is believed to have ascended to Pontius Pilate's palace in Jerusalem, and according to tradition, was brought to Rome by St. Helena herself. |
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| | Lateran Councils |
| | During this long period the popes had occasion to convoke a number of general councils, and for this purpose they made choice of cities so situated as to reduce as much as possible the inconveniences which the bishops called to such assemblies must necessarily experience by reason of long and costly absence from their sees. | | | In 1725, Benedict XIII called to the Lateran the bishops directly dependent on Rome as their metropolitan see, i.e. | | | Other, non-ecumenical councils were held at the Lateran, among the best known being those in 649 against the Monothelite heresy, in 823, 864, 900, 1102, 1105, 1110, 1111, 1112, and 1116. |
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| | Our Sunday Visitor Newspaper and Magazines |
| | library and bedroom, the palace itself is a union of art and prayer, with ornate meeting rooms, halls, frescoes and Renaissance loggias contrasting with the mundane bureaucratic offices of the Secretariat of State, the administrative right arm of the Holy Father in governing the Church. | | | By its terms, the Holy See acknowledged Italy and the Italian government recognized the Vatican City as the temporal possession of the popes. | | | As pilgrims stand in St. Peter's Square and stare in awe at the glory of St. Peter's Basilica, it is easy to ignore the two 17 |
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| | The following homily was given by Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde on Nov. 9, the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome, at St. Agnes Church in Arlington for the Diocesan Mass for the Sick. | | | As we gather this morning for our Diocesan Mass for the Sick, sponsored by the Knights and Dames of Malta, we also join Catholics the world over in celebrating the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. | | | Together, as the People of God, the Church, we journey toward our homeland where every tear will be wiped away and there will be no more mourning, no more tears, no more suffering — only life in all its fullness forever! |
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| | Text of the Lateran Treaty of 1929 |
| | It is understood that Italy undertakes in all cases to allow the freedom of correspondence for all States, including belligerents, to and from the Holy See, as well as free access to the Apostolic See by Bishops from all over the world. | | | An Agreement Between the Italian Republic and the Holy See amended the Lateran Pacts in 1985. | | | Similar immunity shall also apply with regard to any other churches (even if situated outside Rome) during such time as, without such churches being open to the public, the Supreme Pontiff shall take part in religious ceremonies celebrated therein. |
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| | Scala Sancta (Holy Stairs) |
| | When Sixtus V in 1589 destroyed the old papal palace and built the new one, he ordered the Holy Stairs be transferred to their present site, before the Sancta Sanctorum (Holy of Holies). | | | Consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition the staircase leading once to the prætorium of Pilate at Jerusalem, hence sanctified by the footsteps of Our Lord during his Passion. | | | The Sancta Sanctorum also contains the celebrated image of Christ, "not made by human hands", which on certain occasions used to be carried through Rome in procession. |
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| | Although Kempe does not specifically mention it, she very probably visited the Capitoline Hill and the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli there. | | | 17th century manuscript illumination of Lateran Palace Benediction Loggia (copy of a fresco c.1300) | | | All, except the Northern portico built by Domenico Fontana, look as they did in 1415, and do today. |
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| | Lives of the Saints, November 9, Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, Saint Theodore Tyro |
| | Saint Peter Damian wrote that “just as the Saviour is the Head of the elect, the church which bears His name is the head of all the churches. | | | Not satisfied to establish this edict, the prince wanted to give an example and inaugurate the holy labors. | | | Thus in his own Lateran palace, he dedicated a church to the Saviour, and founded the attached baptistry under the name of Saint John the Baptist, in the place where he himself, baptized by Saint Sylvester, had been cured of leprosy. |
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| | Janson Media: Video & DVD: The Raphael Rooms |
| | It was the centre from which the Roman Patriarch extended his mission as successor to the apostle Peter in the Universal Church. | | | On this site, Constantine had a Christian basilica built on top of what had been the command headquarters of his mortal enemy, Maxentius. | | | From the Constantine age to the transfer of the Papacy to Avignon (14th century), it hosted many councils, five of which were ecumenical. |
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| | St Peter's - Saint Peter's by James Lees-Milne |
| | After the Emperor Constantine had given his wife's Lateran property to Pope Sylvester I, this place became the seat of papal government and the popes' only dwelling place. | | | Not until 1470, when he had only one more year to live, did Paul resume the suspended work upon Nicholas V's Tribuna di San Piero. | | | His capital was a desert, his vast church was tottering to decay. |
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| | The basilica, also known as St. John Lateran, is the cathedral of Rome, as well as the pope's church, serving as the first-ranking church in the Roman Catholic world. | | | The original Lateran palace was replaced in the 16th century by its present form. | | | The original basilica, built before the year 311 CE, was restored during the 5th-10th century, and rebuilt during the 14th-18th century. |
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| | I share your Holiness's hope and raise a prayer to God that with today's act we may have a beginning of a new, happy era in the relations between Church and State. | | | "I am moved by the cordial telegram sent to me by your Holiness on the occasion of the exchange of ratifications of the Lateran Treaties. | | | The telegram, which was written in the Pope's own handwriting, was addressed to the King of Italy, and it expressed the Pontiff's satisfaction at the ratification of the Lateran treaties. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - LATERAN COUNCILS: |
| | At the great Lateran Council of 1215 further steps were taken by the Church to check usury. | | | The testimony of Christians was to be preferred to that of Jews, while the property of converts to the Christian Church was not to be taken away from them. | | | At the former or third Lateran Council the Church law with regard to Jews having Christian servants was reenacted, and those Christians were excommunicated who even lodged among Jews. |
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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - VATICAN LIBRARY: |
| | Papal library; originally housed, with its archives, in the Lateran Palace, where it was enriched, in the course of time, by many rare manuscripts. | | | The subsequent history of these manuscripts is uncertain, and they have been either wholly or partly lost. | | | Transferred to the Torre Chartularia on the Palatine, it was taken to Avignon; but on the return of the Apostolic See to Rome it became known as the Biblioteca Avignonese. |
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| | St John Lateran L12 |
| | Thus the basilica remained in lonely and quiet environment surrounded by gardens and vineyards till the end of the 19th century, disturbed only by pilgrims and hospices-hospitals, taverns and inns serving the regular number of faithful reaching this place of Christian cult. | | | In the beginning of the 4th century one part of the Lateran Palaces assigned by Constantine as a residence of Roman bishop, was transformed in Christian basilica probably built between 314 and 318, and was dedicated to the Redeemer and later to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist. | | | The facade of the eastern side of the palace was finished under Clement XII who had his coat-of-arms attached to the top of it in 1735. |
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| | Huma103 - Lecture 12 |
| | Vienna Schatzkammer Gospels (Palace School), 790-810, St. Matthew author portrait | | | Fountain of Life, Gospel Book of Saint Médard of Soissons, early ninth century | | | Mosaics in Hall (Triclinium) of Leo III of Lateran Palace in Rome illustrating delegation of authority from Christ to Peter and Constantine and from Peter to Charlemagne and Leo III |
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| | Constantinople, A Rival Religious Papacy |
| | The fact of the Roman Church at the Lateran Palace is evidence of itself of some agreement with Constantine, nothing to the contrary existing. | | | It is a fact of history that when Constantine defeated Maxentius, he did give the Church of Rome the Lateran Palace as its official residence and built a number of Churches there. | | | With Constantinople the new seat of the Roman Empire, it was only a matter of political power for the Bishop of Byzantine to come into prominence, since the Bishop of Rome was at a great distance and to his disadvantage. |
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| | Romeguide: Vatican palaces |
| | One of the most sumptuous and articulated monumental complexes in the world is without doubt that of the Vatican Palaces, which began to be built in the 14th century so as to house as befitted their rank the popes who had finally"returned " from their stay in Avignon,and who had previously resided in the Lateran. | | | Between 1509 and 1512 Michelangelo frescoed the vault of the Sistine Chapel for Julius II, and in 1508 Raphael began to decorate the Stanze, which were finished in 1524. | | | Lastly, in the 20th century, Pope Pius XII initiated ar-chaeological excavations under the Basilica of St. Peter's, while John XXIII turned his attention to the construction of new rooms which could better house the museum col-lections of the Lateran Palace. |
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| | The Pope still is referred to as the Pontifex Maximus in some official church documents. | | | The Treaty of the Lateran made between the pope and his church and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy on Feb. 11, 1929, effectively declared Vatican City to be a sovereign city-state. | | | Emperor Constantine the Great ceded the Lateran Palace and its large land holdings and revenues to Pope Milchiades in A.D. The emperor granted the palace to the pope, along with the title Prince of the Lateran Palace, which was the first noble title of sovereign status for the bishops of Rome. |
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| | Catholic World News : Wednesday, Feb. 11 is a Vatican holiday |
| | The concordat was revised in 1984, at which time Catholicism was disestablished as Italy's official religion. | | | The Lateran accords-- so-called because they were signed in the Lateran Palace-- provided compensation for the Italian seizure of papal lands, guaranteed the independence of the Vatican and established Catholicism as the official religion of Italy. | | | This year, the Vatican marks the 75th anniversary of the Lateran accords, which settled a series of hotly contested issues that had pitted the Holy See against the Italian government, dating back to 1879, when the newly formed Italian government occupied the territory of the papal states. |
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| | Rosary Workshop: Rosary - Rosary Of The Basilica - (RBW.2040) |
| | St John Lateran is the oldest Christian church in existence. | | | In a separate building you will find the Scala Santa - traditionally known as the 'holy stairs' brought from the palace of Pontius Pilate, the stairs Christ climbed during the Passion. | | | They were first installed in the Lateran Palace then moved to the new site to give access to the Sancta Sanctorum. |
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| | [Bishop of Rome -- Pope Benedict XVI]to be installed at St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral |
| | Pope Benedict XVI pledged on Saturday to follow the strict line of his predecessor and defend traditional Catholic teachings from 'fashionable' ideas that threaten to destroy the faith. | | | For several centuries, the Roman Pontiff lived in the Lateran palace adjacent to the church itself. | | | The name "Lateran" refers to the great patrician family of ancient Rome on his grounds the basilica now stands. |
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| | Lateran Obelisk |
| | Ask anybody with saying "Obelisco" if you don't know the direction. | | | The site is the west of the "Palazzo Laterano" (Lateran Palace), and the north of Bacilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, which was the center of the medieval Catholicism. | | | Story: The so-called "Lateran Obelisk" is the largest standing authentic obelisk in the world. |
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| | Sancta Sanctorum L15 |
| | Starting from the middle of the 15th century the staircase from the old Lateran Palace was identified with the staircase of Pilate's house which Christ descended after his condemnation, so it was given the name of " | | | From the old Lateran constructions remained after imperial Rome there are three survived and located in one building built by D.Fontana in 1589. | | | A fragment of the original mosaic is in the Museum of Christian Art in Vatican. |
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| | Apostolic Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The palace is a complex of buildings, comprising the Papal Apartment, the Roman Catholic church's government offices, a handful of chapels, the Vatican Museum and the Vatican library. | | | After the final overthrow of the Papal States in 1870, the King of Italy confiscated that palace in 1871, making it the king's official residence; after the abolition of the Italian monarchy in 1946, it became the president's residence. | | | The other papal residences are at the Lateran Palace and the Castel Gandolfo outside Rome. |
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| | The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Lateran Council, Second @ HighBeam Research |
| | LATERAN COUNCIL, SECOND [Lateran Council, Second] 1139, 10th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convened at the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Pope Innocent II. | | | The council attempted to heal the wounds left by the schism of the antipope Anacletus II (d. | | | Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years. |
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| | Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary : Chapter V |
| | When the Catholic King Pepin heard that the Vicar of Christ was on his way to see him, he rode out from his palace three miles to meet him. | | | The gift of the Lateran Palace Constantine had made also, over four hundred years before Pepin, "to Saint Peter," for it has been the way of great men to discern in the tones of the Bishops of Rome the voice of the divinely chosen Prince of the Apostles. | | | But this was the prospect which once more confronted them shortly after they had, in wild rejoicing at his election, borne the beloved Pope Stephen III on their shoulders to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran. |
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| | Global Catholic News - A Press Office at Age 50; Lateran Palace on Display |
| | Breaking stories from Zenit news, an English news agency in Rome, specializing in coverage of the Pope, life in the Holy See and events of interest in the Church. | | | Those of you who live in Rome, and those who are planning to come, should not miss the chance to see the beautiful "nobile" rooms of the Lateran Palace at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. | | | Tourists in Rome often do a better job of seeing the sites than many of us who live here year-round. |
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| | Lives of the Saints, November 18, Dedication of the Basilicas of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Saint Odon or Eudes |
| | This basilica was dedicated by Pope Saint Sylvester on the fourteenth day of the calendes of December, just as on the fifth of the ides of November he had consecrated the Church of the Lateran, but here he did so by raising a stone altar which he anointed with sacred chrism... | | | Near the Lateran palace where the early Popes dwelt, which was itself built by Constantine the Great or Saint Liberius, Constantine built on the same hill, over the tomb of Saint Peter called the Confession, the Church of the first Vicar of Christ, where once a Roman circus had stood. | | | This first Christian emperor placed there a plaque to honor Saint Peter, on which he had inscribed: |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: The Lateran Palace |
| | It was destroyed by fire in the years 1307 and 1361, and during the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585-1590) the architect Fontana replaced the building with a smaller edifice. | | | The Lateran remained the papal residence for about 1000 years. | | | Pius IX established the Museum of Catacomb Inscriptions and Christian Antiquities in the Lateran Palace, 1854, under the guardianship of Cardinal Patrizi, Monsignor Castellani and Monsignor Tizzani, Father Marchi, S.J., and G. De Rossi. |
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| | These last collections (Gregorian Profane Museum, Pio Christian Museum and the Hebrew Lapidary) were transferred, under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII (1958-1963), from the Lateran Palace to their present building within the Vatican and inaugurated in 1970. | | | The popes were among the first sovereigns who opened the art collections of their palaces to the public thus promoting knowledge of art history and culture. | | | This section of the museum contains 137 inscriptions from ancient Hebrew cemeteries in Rome mostly from via Portuense and donated by the Marquisate Pellegrini-Quarantotti. |
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| | Lateran Council, Second, 1139, 10th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convened at the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Pope | | | Among the council's canons were prohibitions of clerical concubinage and marriage and of the use of bows and crossbows in fighting Christians; simony and usury were also condemned. | | | Innocent II The council attempted to heal the wounds left by the schism of the antipope Anacletus II (d. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Vatican : History, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Gregory XIII and Sixtus V spent huge sums on the Vatican and also began the Quirinal, a palace that served as the papal residence from the 17th to the 19th cent., was the Italian royal palace from 1870 to 1946, and is now the home of the president of Italy. | | | The history of the Vatican as a papal residence dates from the 5th cent., when, after Emperor Constantine I had built the basilica of St. Peter's, Pope Symmachus built a palace nearby. | | | The pope usually resided in the Lateran Palace until the "Babylonian captivity" (14th cent.) in Avignon, France. |
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| | Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome |
| | Article 18 of the Lateran treaty stated that the "artistic and scientific treasures existing within the Vatican City and the Lateran Palace shall remain open to scholars and visitors, although the Holy See shall be free to regulate the admission of the public thereto." | | | The Lateran Pacts were signed on Feb. 11, 1929. | | | It is fitting that the Hall of the Popes was restored in time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its most celebrated event. |
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| | At Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, 14, a 1589 building houses two relics from the Lateran Palace: the pope's private chapel and a staircase that Jesus ascended in Pontius Pilate's house during his trial. | | | Before the Pope moved to Avignon in 1309, his official residence was in a palace (since destroyed) in this region. | | | The photo entitled "Altar 10" under the "Scala Santa" heading in the Lateran section of the Rome travelogue is located incorrectly. |
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