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This Day In History. History Vault. For these reasons, Italian archaeologist Margherita Guarducci, among others, argued that the bones belonged to St. Peter, either. Wow, this is fascinating!
Very fascinating! The mythical Peter never existed, so obviously was never buried either. What was found beneath the Basilica in was a pagan cemetery.
Therefore, Saint Peter really lived and died on the cross, just like Jesus Christ. Interesting tid bit I learned that the Basilica is 1 meter longer than the longest dimension of the Coliseum — as a one up on the pagans. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
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Update my browser now. The Pieta, in St. Nadine Goowai Italia says:. Linda says:. In the construction of the basilica was completed. The church was used for the celebration of the cult, as a covered cemetery and as a funeral banquet room. During the High Middle Ages it was the main pilgrimage site in the West.
The archaeological excavations carried out under the present basilica, the descriptions, drawings and ancient paintings give us an idea of what the first Vatican basilica was like. In Julius II begins the construction of a new basilica replacing the existing one, commissioning to the architect Donato Bramante.
Bramante proposes a plant in Greek cross four equal arms , like the Byzantine churches of 9th century. When Bramante passed away in , the works passed to Rafael Sanzio and several proposals were discussed until Rafael died in and construction continues with Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, who in concretizes his project for the basilica.
In , at the death of Antonio da Sangallo, the architect named was Michelangelo Buonarroti who will give the definitive shape to the design, simplifying the plant by eliminating the sacristies with towers of the corners of the square designed by Bramante; this transformed the outer limits of the area into a continuous surrounding wall giving unity and coherence to the volume of the building.
Michelangelo reinforced the structure since the axis of his idea was the erection of an imposing canted dome, on an important drum, that would raise much more than the original proposal of Bramante. Its construction was completed twenty-four years after his death by Domingo Fontana and Jacobo della Porta.
The latter was in charge of concluding the project of Michelangelo and when dying in was only to erect the facade and design the square. Pope Paul V decided to extend the church to the front with the architect Carlo Maderno, transforming the plant of Greek cross by Bramante in a plant in Latin cross, traditional of the churches of the West. Maderno prolongs the vault of the front arm placing on both sides a series of chapels covered with oval domes and in the exterior continues the wall designed by Michelangelo highlighting the front with great attached columns.
The front was built between and In , Juan Lorenzo Bernini, is called to realize the canopy that constitutes the major altar and that by tradition should be located in the center of the cross, on the tomb of the Apostle Peter, completed task in Since the death of Maderno in , Bernini takes charge of the interior decoration of the whole church giving it its present appearance. The St.
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