The Chair Of Saint Peter At Antioch. Feast Day, Today, 22 February.

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The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.

Feast Day 22 February.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Peter as Pope — shown with The Pallium 

and The Keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.

Magyar: Szent Péter, portréfestménye a szentről, mint pápáról –

a festményen pápai köntösben a mennyország kulcsaival látható.

Français: Saint Pierre. Elle représente le saint en tant que Pape -

vu ici avec le pallium et les clés du Paradis.

Artist: Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).

Date: 1610-1612.

Current location: Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: Originally from en.wikipedia 

description page is (was) here.

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"Tu Es Petrus" 

[Thou Art Peter].

By Robert Pearsall (1795 - 1856).

Sung on The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch.

At The Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville, 

Ohio, United States of America.

Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum 

and Students from The Franciscan University.

Conductor: Andrew Leung

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"Asperges Me".

on The Feast Day of The Chair of Saint Peter at Antioch. 

At The Church of Saint Peter, Steubenville,

Ohio, United States of America. 

Sung by Schola Cantorum Sanctorum Angelorum

and Students from The Franciscan University.

Conductor: Andrew Leung.

Cantor: John Brodeur.

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To honour the dignity of "The Prince" (Introit), to whom Jesus committed The Power of The Keys (Collect), The Church instituted The Feast of "The Chair of Saint Peter", which is found in The Roman Calendar on this date since 354 A.D.

[The Cathedra (Chair) is The Throne established where the Bishop resides, hence the name Cathedral, given to the Church where the Bishop's Seat is placed. Metaphorically, it represents the Episcopal authority itself. "The Chair of Saint Peter" means, therefore, a memory of Saint Peter's Episcopate, and his Primacy as Head of The Whole Church.]

As it often falls in Lent, certain Churches Celebrated it at an earlier date, in January. Hence, the two Feasts of "The Chair of Saint Peter", which The Church distinguished by connecting the more ancient Feast [Rome, until the 16th-Century, only Celebrated this Feast and not the other Feast] on 22 February, with "The Chair at Antioch", and the other Feast, on 18 January, with "The Chair of Rome". Saint Peter resided, indeed for some time, at Antioch about the years 51-52 A.D.

Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

A Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately 

follows The Collects of The Feast, today, 

for 

The Liturgy does not separate those 

who have so justly been called 

"The Two Pillars of The Church".

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It is to Saint Peter, who proclaimed that Jesus was "The Christ, Son of The Living God" (Gospel), when all Palestine rejected Him, that The Master commits The Power to Bind Satan by Closing The Gates of Hell, to Open for us The Gates of Heaven (Gospel). And The Head of The Church teaches us in his first Epistle that it is "by Faith, in the sprinkling of The Blood of Jesus Christ, that The Holy Ghost Sanctifies us and reconciles us to The Father."

The Commemoration of Saint Paul immediately follows The Collect of The Feast, for The Liturgy does not separate those who have so justly been called "The Two Pillars of The Church".

Let us today honour The Head of The Church, who continues here below the redeeming work of Jesus.

Mass: Státuit ei Dóminus.
Commemoration: Of Saint Paul.
Commemoration: Of The Feria (with Last Gospel), in Lent.

Thursday Of The First Week In Lent. Lenten Station At Saint Laurence's-In-Panisperna.

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Thursday of The First Week in Lent.

Station at Saint Laurence's-in-Panisperna.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

Church of San Lorenzo-in-Panisperna, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

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The Station at Rome was established by Pope Gregory II, in the old Church of Saint Laurence-in-Panisperna, erected to the glory of the heroic Deacon, on the very spot where he suffered Martyrdom.

The Church reminds The Catechumens that, since the coming of Jesus, it is no longer the Race of Israel, alone, that has the promise, but that all can enter The Church by Baptism and partake of The Eucharistic Bread of The Children of God.

If the heathen will Solemnly deny the evil deeds of his fathers and practise the Christian Law of Penance and Charity (Epistle), his Prayer will be granted, as was that of the woman who belonged to the accursed Race of Canaan, but whose Faith was great (Gospel).

Let us seek in The Eucharist the strength required to observe Lent. For it is our Fasting, in conjunction with The Sacrifice of Jesus, that will obtain for us Salvation (Secret, Communion, Postcommunion).

Mass: Conféssio et pulchritúdo.

Saint Laurence's Martyrdom, 

by Pasquale Cati (1589),

in the Church of San Lorenzo-in-Panisperna, 

Rome, Italy.

Photo: March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

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San Lorenzo-in-Panisperna, or San Lorenzo-in-Formoso, is a Church on Via Panisperna, Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of Saint Laurence's Martyrdom.

Panisperna most probably refers to the Tradition of The Poor Clares (in the adjacent Convent) of distributing bread and ham (pane e perna) on 10 August, Laurence's Feast Day, in remembrance of his distributing funds from The Church to the Poor. "Formoso" refers to Pope Formosus, who built the first attested Church, here.

Tradition states that the first building was constructed during the Reign of Emperor Constantine I, only 100 years after the Martyrdom of Saint Laurence, though the first written evidence is from 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII rebuilt the Church and annexed an Abbey to it. That Abbey was given to The Benedictines in 1451, and then had The Poor Clares settled in it by Cardinal Jacopo Colonna in 1896, who also restored the Church and Monastery.

English: The Chapel of Saint Brigid 

in the Church of Saint Laurence-in-Panisperna, Rome.

Italiano: Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Panisperna,

Cappella di Santa Brigida.

Photo: 1996.

Source: Own work.

Author: Torvindus.

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The Franciscans now Serve the Church. In the 5th-Century A.D., this Church was one of Rome's Stational Churches and was visited by The Pope on its Titular Day, The Thursday of The First Week in Lent. Recent Popes have revived this ancient custom.

The present Church is a result of a re-building by Carlo Rainaldi in 1575–1576, under Pope Gregory XIII. It was at this time that it became known as 'in-Panisperna' rather than 'in-Formoso', and that the present Facade was built.

A new Outer Portico was added in the 17th-Century, then restored and decorated with images of Saint Laurence and Saint Francis of Assisi in 1893–1894 by Pope Leo XIII, who, in 1843, had been Ordained Bishop in this Church. Pope Leo XIII also added a steep flight of steps, in front of the Church, leading to a tree-lined Courtyard. There is a modern bronze statue of Saint Bridget of Sweden, here.

A Mediaeval house is preserved, next to the Church, with an exterior staircase, one of the few such houses to have been preserved in Rome.

Entrance door of the Church of San Lorenzo-in-Panisperna, Rome.

Photo: March 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

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The Church has a single Nave with three Chapels on each side.

South Side.
Includes a painting of Saint Clare of Assisi (1756), by Antonio Nessi, and a Ceiling fresco of Glory of Saint Laurence, by Antonio Bicchierai.

Contains the Tomb of the brothers, Saint Crispin and Saint Crispinian, with a painting by Giovanni Francesco Romano.

Painting of The Immaculate Conception, by Giuseppe Ranucci.

North Side.

Painting of The Stigmata of Saint Francis, by Niccolò Lapiccola.

Chapel of Saint Bridget, where she was buried before her body was moved to Sweden. She had used to beg for Alms for The Poor outside this Church, and Prayed before The Crucifix by The High Altar. Now, a Martyr, named Victoria, lies underneath the Altar in the Chapel.

The painting of Saint Bridget, Praying before The Crucifix, is by Giuseppe Montesanti and was painted in 1757.

Includes an 18th-Century Crucifix of The Roman School.

Under its Porch, is a Chapel containing the oven, said to have been used for Saint Laurence's Martyrdom. A Late-16th-Century fresco of The Martyrdom of Saint Laurence stands behind The High Altar (by Pasquale Cati, a mediocre pupil of Michelangelo). The Crucifix, by The High Altar, is from the 14th-Century.

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Wednesday Of Ember Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At Saint Mary Major.

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unless stated otherwise.

Wednesday of Ember Week in Lent.

Station at Saint Mary Major.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome.

Français: Vue arriere de la Basilique Sainte-Marie Majeure de Rome (Santa Maria Maggiore).

Photo: November 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: LPLT.

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The Spring Ember Week coincides with The First Week of Lent. It was instituted for the purpose of consecrating to God The New Season, and, by Fasting and Prayer, to draw down Heavenly Graces on those, who, on Saturday next, are to receive The Sacrament of Holy Orders.

The Station on The Wednesday in Ember Week was always held at Saint Mary Major, the greatest and most illustrious of The Roman Churches Consecrated to The Blessed Virgin.

English: Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Vatican.

Français: Basilique Sainte-Marie-Majeure, 

Vatican, située à Rome, Latium, Italie.

Photo: September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tango7174.

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Is it not fitting that on this very day, when The Scrutinies for Ordination used to be made, the Liturgical gathering should be made in The Basilica Consecrated to her, whom Proclus of Constantinople hails as “The Temple in which God became Priest” ? The Gospel also alludes to Our Lady.

English: The Borghese Chapel, Saint Mary Major, Rome.

Português: Capela Borghese, Santa Maria Maggiore, Roma.

Photo: 2005.

Source: Taken by Ricardo André Frantz.

Author: Ricardo André Frantz (User:Tetraktys).

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The two Lessons, the second of which is read as The Epistle, tell of Moses and Elias, who, before seeing The Glory of The Lord, Fasted Forty Days and Forty Nights. Called to take the place of the rebellious Jews, let us make ourselves worthy of The Fruits of Penance, as did the men of Ninive, who listened to the voice of Jonas, and the Queen of Saba, who came from her distant Country to learn The Wisdom of Solomon (Gospel). We shall participate, then, in The Resurrection of The Saviour, symbolised by The Prophet, who, after remaining three days in the whale’s stomach, was vomited out alive.

Let us Pray to God that we may be strengthened in mind by The Fruit of Good Works, while we mortify our bodies by Abstinence (Collect).

Mass: Reminíscere.

Tuesday Of The First Week In Lent. Lenten Station At The Basilica Of Saint Anastasia.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Tuesday Of The First Week In Lent.

Station at Saint Anastasia's.

Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.

Violet Vestments.

English: Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino, Rome, Italy.

Česky: Bazilika sv. Anastázie na Palatinu, Řím, Itálie.

Photo: April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Karelj.

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The Station is at the old Church, which, in the 4th-Century A.D., was the only Parish in the Centre of Rome and in its wealthy Quarter. Built at the foot of The Palatine Hill, this Church, which owes its name to The Chapel of The Resurrection (Anastasis) at Jerusalem, was also Consecrated to Saint Anastasia.

Saint Anastasia was put to death, under Emperor Diocletian, at Sirmium, in Illyria (now Mitrowitz). Tradition seems to say that this "Title", mentioned in a Synod in 499 A.D., recalls the house of this Holy Martyr in Rome (?). It is more than likely, however, that it concerns but a simple identity of name between the Roman Foundress of this Basilica and the Titular Saint.

Lent is the time when "God is near to us and eager to forgive us, if we put aside our evil thoughts and forsake the way of sin" (Epistle). To do so, we must cast sin out from our hearts, as Jesus cast out the sellers from the Temple (Gospel), and receive the teaching of Christ with the simplicity of Children of God. Then, He will be able to cure our Souls, as He healed the lame and the blind who came nigh unto Him.

Casting out the vainglorious wisdom of the World, let us profit by The Holy Season of Lent, so that, "chastening our bodies by mortification, our Souls may be filled with Holy Desires" (Collect).

Mass: Dómine, refúgium.

The Basilica of Saint Anastasia, Rome.

Photo: June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lalupa.

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The Church of Santa Anastasia is a Minor Basilica Church in Rome.

Santa Anastasia Church was built in the Late-3rd-Century A.D. - Early-4th-Century A.D., possibly by a Roman woman named Anastasia. The Church is Listed under the Titulus "Anastasiae" in The Acts of The 499 A.D. Synod. Later, the Church was entitled to The Martyr with the same name, Anastasia of Sirmium.

The Church was restored several times: Pope Damasus I (366 A.D. - 383 A.D.); and Pope Hilarius (461 A.D. - 468 A.D.); Pope John VII (705 A.D. - 707 A.D.); Pope Leo III (795 A.D. - 816 A.D.); Pope Gregory IV (827 A.D. - 844 A.D.). The current Church dates back to the 17th-Century Restoration commissioned by Pope Urban VII.

Traditionally, the Church is connected to the cult of Saint Jerome, who possibly Celebrated Mass here. The Saint is depicted over the Altar, by Domenichino.

Ceiling of The Basilica Sant'Anastasia, Rome.

Photo: July 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Mattes.

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The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Anastasiae is Godfried Danneels. Past holders have included John Morton, an Archbishop of Canterbury.

Art and Architecture.

The last Restoration, after the Restoration during the Papacy of Pope Sixtus IV, occurred in 1636, when the facade, with, Lower, Doric, and, Upper, Ionic order, was reconstructed in 1636, after the cyclone of 1634. The Nave recycles antique Columns. The Ceiling is frescoed with a Martyrdom of The Saints (1722) by Michelangelo Cerruti.

English: Madonna and Child in the Basilica di Sant'Anastasia al Palatino, Rome, Italy.

Česky: Socha v Bazilice sv. Anastázie na Palatinu, Řím, Itálie.

Photo: April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Karelj.

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The Chapel, to the Right, has a painting of Saint John the Baptist by Pier Francesco Mola. While the last Chapel on the Right has a fresco of Scenes of the Life of Saints Carlo Borromeo and Filippo Neri by Lazzaro Baldi.

The Right Transept has a painting of Saint Toribio (1726) by Francesco Trevisani. The High Altar has a Nativity, by Lazzaro Baldi, and, below the Altar, is a statue of Saint Anastasia, by Ercole Ferrata. It clearly shows the influence of Bernini's Beata Ludovica Albertoni. The Left Transept has a Madonna of The Rosary, by Baldi. The last Chapel, to the Left, by Domenichino, depicts Saint Jerome. The other Chapel has Ss.Giorgio e Publio, by Etienne Parrocel.

The Book Of Ruth: “ Whither Thou Goest, I Will Go . . . Where Thou Lodgest, I Will Lodge . . . Thy People Shall Be My People . . . And Thy God, My God ”.

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Illustration: 

CHRIST MY COVENANT

"Whither Thou Goest".

Sung by Les Paul and Mary Ford.

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Ruth (Hebrew: רוּת, Modern Rut Tiberian Rūθ), is the main character in The Book of Ruth in The Hebrew Bible.

Ruth was a Moabitess, who married into the Hebrew family of Elimelech and Naomi, whom she met when they left Bethlehem and relocated to Moab, due to a famine. Elimelech and his two sons died, leaving Naomi and her two daughters-in-law as widows.

When Naomi decided to return to Bethlehem, Ruth decided to go with her, despite the fact that Orpah, Naomi's other daughter-in-law, went back home.

Ruth famously vowed to follow Naomi in the following passage:

" Entreat me not to leave thee,

or to return from following after thee:

for whither thou goest, I will go;

and where thou lodgest, I will lodge:

thy people shall be my people,

and thy God my God:

Where thou diest, will I die,

and there will I be buried:

the LORD do so to me, and more also,

if ought but death part thee and me. "

(Ruth 1:16-17, King James Version)

"Ruth in the Fields"

by Merle Hugues, 1876.

Illustration: BIBLE-PEOPLE

"Whither Thou Goest".

Sung by Perry Como.

Available on YouTube at

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Ruth went to glean in the fields, where she met Boaz. At the instigation of Naomi, she forced Boaz to declare his intentions regarding Ruth by slipping into the threshing floor at night, uncovering his feet, and lying at his feet (Ruth 3:8), in the Mosaic tradition of having the nearest relative be the kinsman redeemer (Leviticus 25:25-55).

Boaz indicated his desire to marry her, and called Ruth a "woman of noble character". After overcoming the obstacle of having a relative with a stronger claim (per the Mosaic requirements in Deuteronomy 25:7-9), Boaz married Ruth, and they had a son, named Obed.

The genealogy, in the final Chapter of the Book, explains how Ruth became the Great-Grandmother of David: Boaz begot Obed, Obed begot Jesse and Jesse begot David (Ruth 4:17). She is also, thus, the ancestor of Joseph (husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus), and is one of the five women mentioned in The Genealogy of Matthew (along with Tamar, Rahab, Bathsheba, and Mary).

Monday Of The First Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At Saint Peter-Ad-Vincula (Saint Peter's Chains).

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

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San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Italian) (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome. It is also known as the home of Michelangelo's Statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Pope Julius II. Two Popes were elected in this Church: His Holiness Pope John II (533 A.D.) and His Holiness Pope Gregory VII (1073).

English: The Chains of Saint Peter, 

in the "Basilica di San Pietro-in-Vincoli", 

Rome, Italy.

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).

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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

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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.

English: Basilica of Saint Peter's Chains, 

Rome, Italy.

Italiano: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, 

Roma, Italy.

Photo: 3 April 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: sailko.

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San Pietro-in-Vincoli (Saint Peter-in-Chains) is a Roman Catholic Titular Church and Minor Basilica in Rome, Italy, 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: The Interior of 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.

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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: The Internal Courtyard of Saint Peter-ad-Vincula (Saint Peter's Chains), Rome, Italy.

Italiano: Vista di parte del cortile interno.

Photo: 21 June 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Costanza spaggiari.

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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.

Basilica of San Pietro-in-Vincoli. 18th-Century Lacunar Ceiling, frescoed

in the centre by Giovanni Battista Parodi, portraying The Miracle of The Chains (1706).

Photo: 26 December 2009.

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Author: San_Pietro_in_Vincoli_-_ceiling,_Rome.jpg: Maros M r a z (Maros).

Derivative work: Alberto Fernandez Fernandez.

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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 centerpiece 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.

Moses.

Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564).

Date: 1513-1515.

Current location: San Pietro-in-Vincoli, Rome.

Source/Photographer: Prasenberg (transferred from en.wikipedia to

Commons by User:Leoboudv using CommonsHelper).

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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.