The Basilica of Saint Peter, officially known in Italian as the Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano and colloquially called Saint Peter's Basilica, ranks second among the five major basilicas of Rome and its Vatican City enclave. The largest church in Christianity, it covers an area of 23,000 m² (5.7 acres); and has a capacity of over 60,000 people. One of the holiest sites of Christendom, it is the burial site of basilica namesake Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus, first Bishop of Antioch, and lat ...

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Despite a frequent confusion due to the similar names, the church of San Pietro in Vincoli (famous for hosting the precious Michelangelo's "Moses") is a different church, situated on the other side of the Tiber river. The Guinness Book of Records currently lists Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro - which was largely inspired by St. Peter's Basilica - as the largest church, surpassing St. Peter's when it was completed in 1989. The validity of this, however, continues to be debated. However, you can fit the St ...

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Vatican City — formally State of the Vatican City, or Vatican City State (Italian: Stato della Città del Vaticano, Latin: Status Civitatis Vaticanae) — is an ecclesiastical sovereign landlocked enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy. The modern-day home of the popes, it is the smallest independent nation state in the world in terms of area and population (that is if the Knights Hospitaller is not counted as a country). It is administered by the Holy See, the ecclesiastical seat ...

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Donato Bramante (1444 - March 11, 1514), Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. Peter's Basilica. Bramante was born in a very small place near Urbino, where in the 1460s Francesco Laurana was adding to Federico da Montefeltro's ducal palace an arcaded courtyard and other features th ...

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The Vatican Hill (in Latin, Vaticanus Mons) is the name given, long before the founding of Christianity, to one of the hills on the side of the Tiber opposite the traditional seven hills of Rome. It may have been the site of an Etruscan town called Vaticum. In the 1st century A.D., the Vatican Hill featured a circus and a cemetery. St. Peter's Basilica is built over the cemetery, the traditional site of Saint Peter's grave. The Vatican Hill is not one of the famous seven hills of Rome, although it was inclu ...

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1546 - Science. 1546 - Architecture. Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica. 1546 - Births. January 27 - Joachim Friedrich, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1608) May 5 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (died 1623) June 24 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (died 1610) July 4 - Murat III, Ottoman Sultan (died 1595) December 14 - Tycho Brahe, ...

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The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore — also known as the Basilica di Santa Maria della Neve and Basilica Liberiana in the Italian language and Saint Mary Major Basilica in the English language — is one of five great ancient Catholic basilicas of Rome: the St. John Lateran, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, St. Peter and St. Paul outside the Walls and that of Santa Maria Maggiore. The Liberian Basilica, as it was then called, is one of the tituli, presided over by a patron—in this case Pope Liberius—th ...

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Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura — also known in English as the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls — is one of five churches considered to be the great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. The Roman Catholic Church counts among them St. John Lateran, St. Lawrence outside the Walls, St. Mary Major, and St. Peter's. Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo is the current archpriest of this basilica, named in 2005. Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls - History. The Basilica ...

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1626 - Events. September 30 - Nurhaci, chieftain of the Jurchens and founder of the Qing Dynasty dies and is succeeded by his son Hong Taiji. November 18 - The new St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican is consecrated, the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326. Spanish establish a trading colony on Taiwan. Peter Minuit, director of the New Netherland colony, begins a policy of "purchasing" Manhattan from the Lenape. Work begins on building the sailing ship Vasa.Including:

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1328 - Events. Augustiner brew Munich May 1 - Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - England recognises Scotland as an independent nation after the Wars of Scottish Independence May 12 - Nicholas V is consecrated at St Peter's Basilica in Rome by the bishop of Venice. May 26 - William of Ockham secretly leaves Avignon under threat from Pope John XXII. 1328 - Births. May 7 - Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Elector of Brandenburg ( ...

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St. Peter's Basilica at night St. Peter's Square The Egyptian obelisk in St. Peter's Square ...

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Algardi was also known for his portraiture which shows an obsessive attention to details of psychologically revealing physiognomy in a sober but immediate naturalism, and minute attention to costume and draperies, such as in the busts of Laudivio Zacchia, Camillo Pamphilj, and Muzio Frangipane and his two sons Lello and Roberto [1]. There is also a bronze statue of Innocent X for the Palazzo dei Conservatori in the Campidoglio. In St. Peter's Basilica, Algardi was also responsible for the prominent tomb of Leo XI (completed 1644). In ...

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The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the north-western part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river, on the latter's right bank. Its borders (3.2km in total, all with Italy) closely follow the city wall constructed to protect the Pope from outside attack. The situation is more complex at the famous St. Peter's Square in front of the St. Peter's Basilica, where the correct border is just outside the ellipse formed by Bernini's colonnade. It is the smallest sovereign state in the ...

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The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the north-western part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river, on the latter's right bank. Its borders (3.2km in total, all with Italy) closely follow the city wall constructed to protect the Pope from outside attack. The situation is more complex at the famous St. Peter's Square in front of the St. Peter's Basilica, where the correct border is just outside the e ...

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Most reconstructions of Peter's life depend primarily on the New Testament; there are no other contemporary accounts of his life or death. According to the New Testament, before becoming a disciple of Jesus, Simon (i.e., Peter) Bar Jonah was a fisherman. He was originally a native of Bethsaida (John 1:44), the son of Jonah (Matt 16:17) or son of Jochanan (John 1:42). The synoptic gospels all recount how his mother-in-law was healed by Jesus at their home in Capernaum (Matt 8:14–17; Mark 1:29–31; Luke 4:38f), so we know he was married, bu ...

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The Vatican City, one of the European microstates, is situated on the Vatican Hill in the north-western part of Rome, several hundred metres west of the Tiber river, on the latter's right bank. Its borders (3.2km in total, all with Italy) closely follow the city wall constructed to protect the Pope from outside attack. The situation is more complex at the famous St. Peter's Square in front of the St. Peter's Basilica, where the correct border is just outside the ellipse formed by Bernini's colonnade. It is the smallest sovereign state in the ...

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It is supposed that this originally uninhabited part of Rome (the ager vaticanus) had always been considered sacred, or at least not available for habitation, even before the arrival of Christianity. In 326 the first church, Constantine's basilica, was built over the site of the tomb of Saint Peter, who was buried in a common cemetery on the spot, and from then on the area started to become more populated, but mostly only by dwelling houses connected with the activity of St Peter's. Popes in their secular role gradually came to ...

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The Vatican City is itself of great cultural significance. Buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel are home to some of the most beautiful art in the world, which includes works by artists such as Botticelli, Bernini and Michelangelo. The Vatican Library and the collections of the Vatican Museums are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance. The permanent population of the Vatican City is predominately male, although two orders of nuns live in the Vatican. A minority are senior Catholic clergy ...

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