Sacred Memories Of The Seven Churches Of Rome

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Dedicated to Cardinal Barberino, the volume deals with “the antiquity of the seven churches of Rome and other places visited by popes and saints, the ornaments, the relics therein and the veneration they have received from all the nations of the world”. Rome is not only the “City of the Seven Hills”, but also the “City of the Seven Churches”, St. Peter's in the Vatican, St. Paul Outside the Walls, St. Sebastian on the Appian Way, St. John Lateran, St. Cross in Jerusalem, St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, St. Mary Major. Particularly valuable in this edition is the plan of the Constantinian basilica of St. Peter's before its 16th-century renovation, faithfully illustrated in minute detail.