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Above the main altar of St. John Lateran are reliquaries contining the heads of Sts Peter and Paul. |
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This is on the ceiling of St. John Lateran Basillica. |
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Bust of Paul in St. Sebastians on the Appian Way. |
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The three pilgrmis at St. Paul's outside the Walls, with several pictures that follow. |
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St. Paul is normally depicted with the Sword and the Book. |
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Pope Benedict designated a special Pauline Door for pilgrims to walk through. |
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The door has various bronze panels - here the handclasp of friendship with the other apostles. |
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The stoning of St. Paul |
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The Pauline Year - June 28, 2009 to June 29, 2009 |
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The Beheading of St. Paul (one of the reasons he's always pictured with a sword). |
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Paul's Conversion - getting knocked to the ground by a vision of Christ. |
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This image of Paul is on the ceiling of the refrectory of the Casa Santa Maria, the house for American Priests in Rome. |
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Santa Maria in Via Lata, on the site of the second home where Paul stayed in Rome. |
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Mosaic of St. Paul in the apse of St. Paul outside the walls. |
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The basillica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls, nicely lit for a concert we attended. |
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The Conversion of St Paul, a painting by Carravagio in Santa Maria del Populo. |
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Detail of the painting. |
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St. Mary Major, the first Church dedicated to Mary. |
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Inside: I found a painting of St. Paul. |
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Mamertinum prison, where both Peter and Paul were kept before their execution. |
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Cell inside the prison, with the column on the left which the saints were bound to. The image above the altar is St. Peter baptizing his jailer. |
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San Paolo alla Regola - Church built on the site of the first "home" of St. Paul in Rome - he was under house arrest. |
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Tre Fontane, place of the Martyrdom of St. Paul. |
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Today it is site of a Benedictine Abbey. |
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Entranceway to the Abbey. |
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The Church of Sancta Maria Scala Coeli - St Mary Stairs of Heaven - was the second Church in Rome dedicated to Mary (after Mary Major). |
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The current building was built in 1582 and is named after a vision of St. Bernard of Mary helping the souls in Purgatory ascend into heaven. |
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Fr. MacLean in the crypt of the Church, where there are the remains of St Zenone and his companions, remembering 10,203 soldiers who died in the persecution of Diocletian on June 9, 298 AD. |
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The altar is dedicated to both St. Paul and St Zenone. |
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Modern painting of St Zenone and his compagnion martyrs. |
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The Church of the place where St. Paul was Martyred. |
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It is called Tre Fontane, "Three Fountains" because St. Paul's head bounced 3 times down the hill and in each place a spring miraculously began to flow. |
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A devout pilgrim, kneeling next to the first fountain, prays in front of the pillar on which St. Paul placed his head when he was beheaded. |
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Interior with a view of the second and third fountains, today enclosed behind grills. Note how they go down the hill. |
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Apse with St. Paul being brought into heaven. |
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Depiction of St. Paul's body being carried in procession from here to St. Paul's outside the walls where he was buried. |
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Note how Paul's head is on the pillar - unfortunately this sculpture has been damaged - the executioner's sword is missing. |
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Inside the Church of the Benedictine Abbey. |
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Very appropriately, a picture of St. Paul. |
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A video of the concert we listended to at St. Paul's Outside the Walls, performing an original piece (in Italian) on the life of Paul. |
