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    Old St. Peter's Basilica was the church buildings that stood, from the 4th to 16th centuries, where St. Peter's Basilica stands today in Vatican City....
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    In Old St. Peter's Basilica, the papal tombs were the final resting places of the popes, most of which dated from the 5th to 16th centuries. The majority...
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    Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti...
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    technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome...
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    Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to...
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  • St. Peter's Basilica is a church in Vatican City. St. Peter's Basilica may also refer to: Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains (Cincinnati), U...
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    the course of twelve years, cast the bronze central doors for Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, which were completed in 1445. Although they were created...
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  • St. Peter's Church may refer to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City or: St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia, Liberia, scene of the Monrovia Church...
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  • Pennsylvania St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, within Rome, Italy Old St. Peter's Basilica, the building that once stood on the spot where the Basilica of Saint...
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    Empire beside Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Mausoleum of Honorius was the last Roman imperial mausoleum built. It became the Chapel of St Petronilla...
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    by a necropolis. In the 16th century it was moved next to the Old St. Peter's Basilica, at the Rotonda di Sant'Andrea. Having stood in the same location...
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    Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave in Rome, directly west of the neighborhood (rione) of Borgo. Both the square and the basilica are...
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    The Chair of Saint Peter (Latin: Cathedra Petri), also known as the Throne of Saint Peter, is a relic conserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City,...
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    pontificate coincided with the construction of churches including Old St. Peter's Basilica, the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem (Santa Croce in Gerusalemme)...
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    Martha's House; Italian: Casa Santa Marta) is a building adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Completed in 1996, during the pontificate of Pope...
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  • period, popes also refused to appear at Saint Peter's Square or at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica facing it. Popes granted the Urbi et Orbi blessings...
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    Charlemagne (800–814) as Holy Roman emperor by Pope Leo III at Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in the year 800 and the establishment of a new empire in...
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    the case in St Peter's and St John Lateran in Rome) and that offer more immediate access to the burial places below. Some Catholic basilicas are Catholic...
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  • Bridge to become the ruler of the western Roman Empire c.320 - Old St. Peter's Basilica is constructed. 325- Constantine convenes the First Council of...
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  • the Dead in St. Peter's Basilica Economy of Vatican City Flag of Vatican City Foreign relations of the Holy See Fountains of St. Peter's Square Fundamental...
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    Filarete (1400–1469), to make two bronze doors, (imposts), for the Old St. Peter's Basilica, completed in 1445. In 1443–1445, Leon Battista Alberti, whose...
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    under Old St. Peter's Basilica, was rediscovered in 1597, and is now below the modern basilica in the Museo Storico del Tesoro della Basilica di San...
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    aisles separated by columns, and with windows near the ceiling. Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is an early church which had this form. It was built in...
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  • Lorenzo Bernini (1667–1677) to ornament the square in front of St. Peter's Basilica. The older fountain, by Maderno, is on the north side of the square. The...
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  • Barisal, Bangladesh St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica, London, Ontario Cathedral of Saint Peter-in-Chains, Peterborough, Ontario St. Peter's Cathedral (Charlottetown)...
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    of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini's brother-in-law...
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  • and two in the evening, until election) by a chimney-top, visible from St. Peter's Square: in a stove attached to the chimney are burnt the voting papers...
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    Stefaneschi Triptych (category Paintings depicting Saint Peter)
    Stefaneschi to serve as an altarpiece for one of the altars of Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is now at the Pinacoteca Vaticana, in Rome. It is a...
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    Vatican Grottoes (category St. Peter's Basilica)
    underground chambers and chapels located under part of the nave of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. They are situated three meters below the current...
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    fire in 847 with a benediction from a balcony in front of the Old St. Peter's Basilica. The mural lends its name to the Stanza dell'incendio del Borgo...
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