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Christianity sacred sites in Rome, Italy
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Basilica di San Clemente, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Basilica di San Clemente descends through time itself. Beneath a luminous twelfth-century church lies a fourth-century basilica, and deeper still, a Roman Mithraeum where...
Basilica di Sant’ Agostino, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Sant'Agostino holds the relics of Saint Monica, whose persistent prayers over decades brought her wayward son Augustine to faith....
Basilica di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Beneath the high altar of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere lies the saint for whom musicians pray....
Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
On the site where legend says oil sprang from the earth foretelling the Messiah's birth, Santa Maria in Trastevere rises as possibly Rome's oldest church dedicated to the...
Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria Maggiore stands as the largest and oldest Marian sanctuary in the Western world....
Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Lorenzo fuori le Mura marks the tomb of Saint Lawrence, the deacon who named the poor as the Church's true treasure and faced death with legendary courage....
Basilica of St. Mary of Minerva, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria sopra Minerva rises above ancient temple foundations, one block from the Pantheon....
Basilica of St. Sebastian Outside the Walls, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Sebastiano fuori le Mura stands on the ancient Appian Way, above the catacombs that gave all Christian underground cemeteries their name....
Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme does not merely honor the Holy Cross—it claims to stand on Jerusalem itself....
Basilica Parrocchiale di Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Maria del Popolo rises where legend says Pope Paschal II exorcised the demons haunting Nero's grave....
Mausoleo di Santa Costanza, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
Santa Costanza preserves the moment when Roman art became Christian. Built around 345 CE as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter, this circular rotunda holds 4th-century...
Monastero di Santa Scolastica
Subiaco, Rome, Italy
Founded by Saint Benedict around 520 AD as one of thirteen monasteries in the Aniene valley, Santa Scolastica is the only one that survived....
Sacro Speco di San Benedetto
Subiaco, Rome, Italy
Around 500 AD, a young man named Benedict withdrew to a cave on Mount Taleo above the Aniene Valley, seeking solitude from the corruption of Rome....
San Nicola in Carcere, Rome, Italy
Rome, Rome, Italy
San Nicola in Carcere preserves Rome's sacred stratigraphy in visible form. A medieval church literally incorporates the columns and foundations of three Roman Republican...
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