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Jun 6, 2020 · The Vatican Palace, north of St. Peter's Basilica, is the Pope's residence within the city walls. The Vatican Museums are filled with masterpieces of painting, sculpture, and other works of art collected by the popes through the centuries. The Vatican Apostolic Library has its location inside the Vatican Palace.
Aug 16, 2019 · Ever since, the true name of God has been passed down from Pope to Pope as privileged secret knowledge and kept hidden from laymen until Pope Francis decided to put an end to the “double life” the Vatican was leading by revealing this secret in 2017. In Exodus 3:14, appearing before Moses as a burning bush, God reveals his name referring to ...
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1929: The independent state of the Vatican comes into existence. 1934: The first and the only railway station was opened. 1950: Declared a Holy Year by Pope Pius XII. 1943: During World War 2, Vatican city remained neutral and while the German troops occupied the city of Rome, the Vatican City wasn’t occupied.
Aug 4, 2015 · The Vatican remains the home of the pope and the Roman Curia, and the spiritual center for some 1.2 billion followers of the Catholic Church. The world’s smallest independent nation-state, it ...
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- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. Encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican City is an independent city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York’s Central Park.
- St. Peter’s Basilica sits atop a city of the dead, including its namesake’s tomb. A Roman necropolis stood on Vatican Hill in pagan times. When a great fire leveled much of Rome in A.D.
- Caligula captured the obelisk that stands in St. Peter’s Square. Roman Emperor Caligula built a small circus in his mother’s gardens at the base of Vatican Hill where charioteers trained and where Nero is thought to have martyred the Christians.
- For nearly 60 years in the 1800s and 1900s, popes refused to leave the Vatican. Popes ruled over a collection of sovereign Papal States throughout central Italy until the country was unified in 1870.
Adoremus, February 2010. On November 29, 1964 — a year after the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy was enacted — the “New Mass”, as it was then called, was ...
At the foot of the Vatican Hill lay the ancient Basilica of St. Peter. By extensive purchases of land the medieval popes acquired possession of the whole hill, thus preparing the way for building activity. Communication with the city was established by the Pons Aelius, which led directly to the mausoleum of Hadrian.
