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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.Monday of The First Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Peter's Chains.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
English: Church of Saint Peter's Chains, Rome.
Italiano: San Pietro-in-Vincoli.
Latin: San Pietro-ad-Vincula.
Photo: December 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: The Chains of Saint Peter, in the
“Basilica di San Pietro-in-Vincoli”, Rome.
Italiano: Le catene di San Pietro, conservate nella
Basilica di San Pietro in Vincoli a Roma.
Photo: August 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Original photo by Raja Patnaik,
post-processed and uploaded by Alessio Damato
(with permission of the author).
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Station is in one of the most ancient Roman Basilicas, built by the Empress Eudocia, where the Chains worn by The Prince of The Apostles, to whom Jesus confided His Flock, are kept. In the 5th-Century A.D., it was one of the twenty-five Parishes of Rome.
English: San Pietro-in-Vincoli’s Apse.
Italiano: Abside di San Pietro-in-Vincoli a Roma.
Photo: March 2010.
Source: Own work.
Author: Goldmund100
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Epistle (of The Day), alluding to the Penitents about to be reconciled at Easter and to the Catechumens preparing for Baptism, says that The Lord is the Shepherd Who comes to seek His Lost Sheep. And the Gospel tells of the separation that this Shepherd will make for ever between the sheep and the goats, or between the good, who repent and give themselves up to Works of Charity, and the sinners (this Prophecy was spoken by Jesus to His Apostles on the Mount of Olives, on the evening of the Tuesday preceding His Death).
Let us ask God to prepare us by “this Lenten Fast” (Collect) “to be loosened from the bonds of our sins” (the Prayer Over the People) by virtue of the Power of Peter, who was delivered from his Chains.
Mass: Sicut óculi.
Preface: For Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome, best known for being the home of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
Also known as the Basilica Eudoxiana, it was first rebuilt on the much older foundations in 432 A.D. – 440 A.D., to house the Relic of the Chains that bound Saint Peter, when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem, the episode called the Liberation of Saint Peter.
The Empress Eudoxia (wife of Emperor Valentinian III), who received them as a gift from her mother, Aelia Eudocia, consort of Valentinian II, presented the Chains to Pope Leo I. Aelia Eudocia had received these Chains as a gift from Iuvenalis, Bishop of Jerusalem.
According to legend, when Pope Leo, while comparing them to the Chains of Saint Peter’s final imprisonment in the Mamertine Prison in Rome, the two Chains miraculously fused together. The Chains are kept in a Reliquary under the High Altar in the Basilica.
The Basilica, consecrated in 439 A.D., by Pope Sixtus III, has undergone several restorations, among them a restoration by Pope Adrian I, and further work in the 11th-Century. From 1471 to 1503, in which year he was elected Pope Julius II, Cardinal Della Rovere, the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, effected notable rebuilding.
The front Portico, attributed to Baccio Pontelli, was added in 1475. The Cloister (1493–1503) has been attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. Further work was done at the beginning of the 18th-Century, under Francesco Fontana, and there was also a renovation in 1875.
The Titulus S. Petri ad Vincula was assigned on 20 November 2010, to Donald Wuerl. The previous Cardinal Priest of the Basilica was Pío Laghi, who died on 11 January 2009.
Two Popes were Elected in this Church: Pope John II in 533 A.D., and Pope Gregory VII in 1073.
The Interior has a Nave and two Aisles, with three Apses, divided by antique Doric Columns. The Aisles are surmounted by Cross-Vaults, while the Nave has an 18th-Century Coffered Ceiling, frescoed in the centre by Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying the Miracle of the Chains (1706).
Michelangelo’s Moses (completed in 1515), while originally intended as part of a massive forty-seven-statue, free-standing funeral monument for Pope Julius II, became the Centre-Piece of the Pope’s funeral monument and tomb in this, the Church of the Della Rovere Family.
Let us ask God to prepare us by “this Lenten Fast” (Collect) “to be loosened from the bonds of our sins” (the Prayer Over the People) by virtue of the Power of Peter, who was delivered from his Chains.
Mass: Sicut óculi.
Preface: For Lent.
English: Basilica of Saint Peter’s Chains, Rome.
Italiano: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Roma.
Photo: 3 April 2013.
Source: Own work.
Author: sailko
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome, best known for being the home of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II.
Also known as the Basilica Eudoxiana, it was first rebuilt on the much older foundations in 432 A.D. – 440 A.D., to house the Relic of the Chains that bound Saint Peter, when he was imprisoned in Jerusalem, the episode called the Liberation of Saint Peter.
The Empress Eudoxia (wife of Emperor Valentinian III), who received them as a gift from her mother, Aelia Eudocia, consort of Valentinian II, presented the Chains to Pope Leo I. Aelia Eudocia had received these Chains as a gift from Iuvenalis, Bishop of Jerusalem.
According to legend, when Pope Leo, while comparing them to the Chains of Saint Peter’s final imprisonment in the Mamertine Prison in Rome, the two Chains miraculously fused together. The Chains are kept in a Reliquary under the High Altar in the Basilica.
English: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Rome.
Deutsch: San Pietro-in-Vincoli,
Gesamtansicht des Innenraums.
Photo: 20 May 2012.
Source: This file was derived from: SPIV_small.jpg
Author: SPIV_small.jpg: Philippos.
Derivative work: Rabanus Flavus
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Basilica, consecrated in 439 A.D., by Pope Sixtus III, has undergone several restorations, among them a restoration by Pope Adrian I, and further work in the 11th-Century. From 1471 to 1503, in which year he was elected Pope Julius II, Cardinal Della Rovere, the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, effected notable rebuilding.
The front Portico, attributed to Baccio Pontelli, was added in 1475. The Cloister (1493–1503) has been attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. Further work was done at the beginning of the 18th-Century, under Francesco Fontana, and there was also a renovation in 1875.
English: Courtyard of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula
(Saint Peter’s Chains), Rome.
Italiano: Vista di parte del cortile interno.
Photo: 21 June 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Costanza spaggiari
(Wikimedia Commons)
Two Popes were Elected in this Church: Pope John II in 533 A.D., and Pope Gregory VII in 1073.
Basilica of San Pietro-in-Vincoli.
18th-Century Lacunar Ceiling, frescoed by Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying The Miracle of the Chains (1706).
Photo: 26 December 2009.
Author: Maros M r a z (Maros).
Derivative work: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Interior has a Nave and two Aisles, with three Apses, divided by antique Doric Columns. The Aisles are surmounted by Cross-Vaults, while the Nave has an 18th-Century Coffered Ceiling, frescoed in the centre by Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying the Miracle of the Chains (1706).
Michelangelo’s Moses (completed in 1515), while originally intended as part of a massive forty-seven-statue, free-standing funeral monument for Pope Julius II, became the Centre-Piece of the Pope’s funeral monument and tomb in this, the Church of the Della Rovere Family.
Moses is depicted with horns, connotating “the radiance of The Lord”, due to the similarity in the Hebrew words for “beams of light” and “horns”. This kind of iconographic symbolism was common in early Sacred Art, and, for an artist, horns are easier to sculpt than rays of light.
Other works of art include two canvasses of Saint Augustine and Saint Margaret by Guercino, the monument of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi, designed by Domenichino, who is also the painter of a Sacristy fresco depicting the Liberation of Saint Peter (1604).
The Altarpiece on the first Chapel to the Left is a Deposition by Cristoforo Roncalli. The tomb of Cardinal Nicholas of Kues (died 1464), with its Relief, Cardinal Nicholas before Saint Peter, is by Andrea Bregno. Painter and sculptor Antonio Pollaiuolo is buried at the Left Side of the entrance. He is the Florentine sculptor who added the figures of Romulus and Remus to the sculpture of the Capitoline Wolf on the Capitol. The tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, decorated with imagery of The Grim Reaper, is also in the Church.
In 1876, archaeologists discovered the tombs of those once believed to be the Seven Maccabean Martyrs, depicted in 2 Maccabees 7–41. It is highly unlikely that these are, in fact, the Jewish Martyrs that had offered their lives in Jerusalem. They are remembered each year on 1 August, the same day as the Miracle of the Fusing of the Two Chains.
The third Altar, in the Left Aisle, holds a mosaic of Saint Sebastian from the 7th-Century A.D. This mosaic is related to an outbreak of plague in Pavia, in Northern Italy. It would only stop if an Altar was built for Saint Sebastian in the Church of S. Pietro-in-Vincoli in that City. Somehow, this story also became accepted in Rome. Hence the Altar.
Other works of art include two canvasses of Saint Augustine and Saint Margaret by Guercino, the monument of Cardinal Girolamo Agucchi, designed by Domenichino, who is also the painter of a Sacristy fresco depicting the Liberation of Saint Peter (1604).
The Altarpiece on the first Chapel to the Left is a Deposition by Cristoforo Roncalli. The tomb of Cardinal Nicholas of Kues (died 1464), with its Relief, Cardinal Nicholas before Saint Peter, is by Andrea Bregno. Painter and sculptor Antonio Pollaiuolo is buried at the Left Side of the entrance. He is the Florentine sculptor who added the figures of Romulus and Remus to the sculpture of the Capitoline Wolf on the Capitol. The tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Passeri Aldobrandini, decorated with imagery of The Grim Reaper, is also in the Church.
Moses.
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564).
Date: 1513-1515.
Current location: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Rome.
Source/Photographer: Prasenberg
(Wikimedia Commons)
The third Altar, in the Left Aisle, holds a mosaic of Saint Sebastian from the 7th-Century A.D. This mosaic is related to an outbreak of plague in Pavia, in Northern Italy. It would only stop if an Altar was built for Saint Sebastian in the Church of S. Pietro-in-Vincoli in that City. Somehow, this story also became accepted in Rome. Hence the Altar.
This stational church, S. Pietro in Vincoli, has a charm rather opposite that of massive and rather cold S. Giovanni Laterano, being rather spare and marked by simplicity, because at the time that it was rebuilt as Zephyrinus notes above, ca. 1474-1515, it was at a time of shortages of materials, largely due to the constant Papal States wars, conducted by the Warrior Pope, Julius II.
ReplyDeleteFor the Roman visitor, it is only a 500 m. walk from the Colosseum, and much easier to access, as long as you dodge the Roman traffic with great care, on foot rather than if you’re driving to it in a taxi. This is because the Via Eudossiana (named after the Empress Eudoxia, who gave S. Leo the Great the chains of S. Peter sometime around 440-450 AD) is rather circuitous, and doesn’t directly come out to access the very busy Via de Colosseo.
The basilica is softly lit, and despite the many visitors, usually quiet; and it has a wonderful ceiling mural overhead of the Miracle of the Chains by Giovanni Battista Parodi (1706).
But as you make your way to the main altar, under which the well-lit reliquary of the chains of Saint Peter is situated, you become aware of the massive marble Moses of Michelangelo at the incomplete tomb of P. Julius II, at your right, definitely glaring at you over his left shoulder, while clutching the 10 Commandments, issuing a warning to be silent and respectful! P. Julius is reclining, with his head elevated on his right arm, as though watching the entire scene above and behind Moses. It is a rather strange position, but perhaps it was supposed to look
as though he is awakening to the resurrection (This writer thought he looked rather bored and unimpressed at Michelangelo’s wizardry). (cont.). Note by Dante P
(cont.) S. Pietro in Vincoli is an active church and has [Novus Ordo] Mass at 8am daily, when it opens, and also at noon, Monday through Saturday. (It has two NO Masses on Sundays, but the times vary.) It is closed every day from 12:30 PM to 3 PM; then opens again after the requisite Roman siesta from 3 PM to 6 PM. The Canons of nearby S. Giovanni Laterano staff the church. It is a worthy and relatively quiet place to stop and meditate on the passing glory of the world.
ReplyDeleteThe station at S. Pietro in Vincoli on Monday 1st Week of Lent may have been chosen to reflect the two scripture readings for the catechumens: As Dom Lefebvre, OSB, states, the Epistle reading is from Ezekiel 34:11-16: “I, the Lord will shepherd my flock.” The Gospel reading is the very stark prophecy from Matthew 25:31-46, the Last Judgment, where the Lord will separate the sheep from the goats. Because traditionally, this Gospel was thought to have been preached to the Apostles on Tuesday in Holy Week by Lord, perhaps a sanctuary dedicated to the chief shepherd and prince of the Apostles was the reason it was chosen.
If the visitor retraces his steps, the roughly 500 m. walk back to the Colosseum, on the left between the Viale Monte Oppio and Via Nicola Salvi is the open area now partly a park and a basketball court, but beyond, mostly ruins of the famous Domus Aurea, the “Golden House” of Nero on the Oppian Hill.
It is worth the Christian reflecting that the vast complex that was commenced shortly after Nero’s arson of Rome (AD 64) and was once opulently decorated with precious stones and gold leaf is now mostly a pile of rubble. (This pilgrim checked it out, and found it not worth one’s time, frankly: not compared to the nearby Roman Forum, the Arch of Titus, the Imperial Sacred Way, and the Temple of the Vestals.) It was finished by AD 68, but that year Nero was murdered, and very quickly afterwards, being an embarrassment to the empire’s successor imperial leaders, it was stripped of its valuables, some of it destroyed, and all of it returned to a much more pedestrian state. It is now mostly stark eroded walls and ruins.
A worthy Lenten reflection on the passing glory of the temporal world. (“Was it worth it, Nero?”) —Note by Dante P
Another scintillating Comment from our Rome Correspondent, Dante P.
DeleteAnybody visiting Rome would be very well advised to read these Comments from Dante P, in order to ascertain which aspects of Rome to visit.
Particularly pithy (and relevant) is the rhetorical question (above): (“Was it worth it, Nero?”).
“Sic Transit Gloria Mundi” is a Latin phrase that means: "Thus Passes The Worldly Glory."