The early 13th-century cloister of the Augustinian abbey by the Santi Quattro Coronati church on the Caelian Hill in Rome. View using: Autodetect • DevalVR • Flash • HTML5 WWW • Google Earth placemark • GPX • MapQuest • Panoramio Show on map • Show nearest ↓ Comments: 0 • Add a comment ↓ Inside the Santi Quattro Coronati church on the Caelian Hill in Rome. Santi Quattro Coronati is an ancient basilica in Rome, Italy. The church dates back to the 4th (or 5th) century, and is devoted to four anonymous saints and martyrs. The complex of the basilica with its two courtyards, the fortified Cardinal Palace with the St. Silvester chapel, and the Monastery with its cosmatesque cloister is built in a silent and green part of Rome, between the Colosseum and San Giovanni in Laterano, in an out-of-time setting. "Santi Quattro Coronati" means the Four Holy Crowned Ones [i.e. martyrs], and refers to the fact that the saints' names are not known, and therefore referred to with their number, and that they were martyrs, since the crown, together to the branches of palm, is an ancient symbol of martyrdom. According to the Passion of St. Sebastian, the four saints were soldiers who refused to sacrifice to Aesculapius, and therefore were killed by order of Emperor Diocletian (284-305). (Text from Wikipedia). View using: Autodetect • DevalVR • Flash • HTML5 WWW • Google Earth placemark • GPX • MapQuest • Panoramio Show on map • Show nearest ↓ Comments: 0 • Add a comment ↓ Inside the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. Wikipedia: It is the oldest and ranks first among the four Papal Basilicas or major basilicas of Rome (having the cathedra of the Bishop of Rome). It claims the title of ecumenical mother church among Roman Catholics. [...] The cathedral itself is located outside of the Vatican boundaries, within the city of Rome. However it has been granted a special extraterritorial status as one of the properties of the Holy See. This is also the case with several other buildings, after the solving of the Roman Question with the Lateran Treaty. View using: Autodetect • DevalVR • Flash • HTML5 Google Earth placemark • GPX • MapQuest • Panoramio Show on map • Show nearest ↓ Comments: 0 • Add a comment ↓ The imposing main nave of the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. View using: Autodetect • DevalVR • Flash • HTML5 Google Earth placemark • GPX • MapQuest • Panoramio Show on map • Show nearest ↓ Comments: 0 • Add a comment ↓ Inside the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome. It is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. According to tradition, the basilica was consecrated around 325 to house the Passion Relics brought to Rome from the Holy Land by St. Helena of Constantinople, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine I. At that time, the basilica floor was covered with soil from Jerusalem, thus acquiring the title in Hierusalem - it is not dedicated to the Holy Cross which is in Jerusalem, but the church itself is "in Jerusalem" in the sense that a "piece" of Jerusalem was moved to Rome for its foundation. The church is built around a room in St. Helena's imperial palace, Palazzo Sessoriano, which she adapted to a chapel around the year 320. Some decades later, the chapel was turned into a true basilica, called the Heleniana or Sessoriana. After falling into neglect, the church was restored by Pope Lucius II (1144-1145). In the occasion it assumed a Romanesque appearance, with a nave and two aisles, a belfry and a porch. [...] The apse of church includes frescoes telling the Legends of the True Cross, attributed to Melozzo, to Antoniazzo Romano and Marco Palmezzano. (Text from Wikipedia). View using: Autodetect • DevalVR • Flash • HTML5 WWW • Google Earth placemark • GPX • MapQuest • Panoramio Show on map • Show nearest ↓ Comments: 0 • Add a comment ↓ |
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