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Honouring the Mother of God – San Maria Maggiore is widely believed to be the most important church dedicated to Mary in Western Christendom. This explains the basilica’s name – ...
Honouring the Mother of God – San Maria Maggiore is widely believed to be the most important church dedicated to Mary in Western Christendom. This explains the basilica’s name – ...
Honouring the Mother of God – San Maria Maggiore is widely believed to be the most important church dedicated to Mary in Western Christendom. This explains the basilica’s name – ...
A VISIT TO ST JOHN LATERAN (continued) Beneath the triumphal arch in the middle of the transept stands the Gothic Papal altar, which contains a wooden altar where the earliest ...
A VISIT TO ST JOHN LATERAN St. John Lateran retains, internally at least, its original Constantinian arrangement: a large rectangular hall with an impressive nave, flanked by double aisles and ...
HISTORICAL ITINERARY It was to Pope Melchiades (311-14) that Constantine gave his Lateran Palace, so-called because it had earlier been the property of the patrician Laterani family, which his second ...
