St Paul Outside The Walls Altar Rome Italy

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St Paul Outside The Walls Altar Rome Italy

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Joan Carroll

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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St. Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome Italy is not exactly obscure but not exactly on the beaten path. It doesn’t make the ‘Top10/15/25’ things to do in Rome and most tourists probably can’t name it. I might not have gone to visit had it not been ‘on the way’ to something else. However, along with the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, St. Peter’s Basilica, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, it is one of the four highest ranking churches in the Catholic hierarchy and is second in size only to St Peter’s. But it’s definitely a WOW when you walk in! All that glitters may not be gold (I didn’t ask) but it is spectacular anyway. You almost need binoculars to see to the other end. It is 131.66 metres (432.0 ft) long, 65 metres (213 ft) wide, and 29.70 metres (97.4 ft) high. For football fans, that is larger by far than a football field. The church dates from the beginning of the 4th century with the end of the official persecution of Christians. Emperor Constantine ordered the excavation of the place where Christians venerated the memory of Saint Paul the Apostle, beheaded under Nero around 65-67 A.D. Above his grave, Constantine built a Basilica which was consecrated by Pope Sylvester in 324. Today, Paul's tomb is below a marble tombstone in the basilica's crypt, at 1.37 metres (4.5 ft) below the altar. The church grew in size and in artistic embellishments through the Paleo-Christian, Byzantine, Renaissance and Baroque periods until it was the biggest Basilica in Rome until the consecration of the Basilica of St Peter in 1626. But in 1823 a fire destroyed the structure. It has since been reconstructed and was re-consecrated in 1840. The new basilica maintained the original structure with one nave and four aisles. The nave's 80 columns and stucco-decorated ceiling are from the 19th century. In the old basilica each pope had his portrait in a frieze extending above the columns separating the four aisles and naves. A 19th-century version can be seen now. With all that room, you would think that one small little tripod would not cause a fuss….

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