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1) Outside the Aurelian Walls, along the Ostiense Way, undoubtedly at Aquas Salvias. 2) The excavations confirm the presence of a cemetery under and around the Basilica (burial niches and underground graves) for poor people and free slaves.
- The Constantine Building
1) The apse of the first Basilica of Constantine, which...
- The Jubilees
Here one can also admire a 13th century mosaic icon and a...
- The Present Territorial Complex
The Lateran Treaties of 1929 and the subsequent agreements...
- The Fire in July 1823
In only one night, the Basilica was destroyed by fire. A...
- The Archpriest Cardinal
Cardinal James Michael Harvey, Archpriest of the Papal...
- The Basilica
It is in this Basilica that every year on the feast of the...
- The Constantine Building
Under the cobblestoned streets of Paris’s chicest district lie the remnants of the mysterious Knights Templar’s mightiest stronghold. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing ...
The Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of Rome's four major papal basilicas, along with the basilicas of Saint John in the Lateran, Saint Peter's, and Saint Mary Major, as well as one of the city’s Seven Pilgrim Churches.
The necropolis was not originally one of the Catacombs of Rome, but an open-air cemetery with tombs and mausolea. The Vatican Necropolis is not to be confused with the Vatican Grottoes, the latter of which resulted from the construction of St. Peter's Church and is located on the ground level of the old Constantinian basilica.
- Temple Bar
- Sir Christopher Wren’s Gate
- The Gruesome 17th and 18th Centuries
- Removal and Restoration
The gateway, known as ‘Temple Bar’, once stood at the point where Fleet Street becomes the Strand: where the City of London becomes the City of Westminster. The ‘Temple’ bit in the name refers to the Temple area of London to the South. It was at one time owned by the Knights Templar who built Temple Church in the 12th century. After the downfall of...
The Great Fire of London did not reach as far as Temple Bar but the old wooden gateway was demolished in 1669 and rebuilt in stone as part of the improvement works following the fire. As if he wasn’t busy enough, the man brought in for the job was Sir Christopher Wren. There is no definite historical evidence that it was designed by Wren, however h...
From the 17th century the heads of traitors were displayed on spikes on top of Temple Bar. They were boiled in salt or pitch first to stop the birds eating them. Sir Thomas Armstrong, one of the ‘Rye House Plotters’, who in 1683 conspired to assassinate the King, was hanged, drawn and quartered, before having one of his ‘quarters’ displayed atop Te...
As central London became increasingly congested, it was decided to remove the gateway in 1878 to ease traffic. The Temple Bar Column was put up in its place in 1880. The gateway lay disassembled in a yard off Farringdon Road for ten years before being acquired by Sir Henry Bruce Meux who had it erected at his estate: Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire...
The cemetery is split into two distinct sections: the East Cemetery, which you're free to roam, and the West Cemetery, which requires a guide. The East Cemetery is a mesmerising mix of ornate Victorian gravestones and tombs, where you'll find the final resting place of luminaries like Karl Marx - he's the communism guy.
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Beginning in 1957, working according to Biblical and Masonic protocols, Doc and his family transformed their two-acre home ground into a visionary spiritual shrine called The Saint Paul Spiritual Holy Temple.
