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The first such guidebooks for Medieval Rome (mirabilia urbis) were compiled in the 12th century to address the needs of travelers to Rome. The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome are listed in the following order in the guide by Franzini (1595): San Giovanni Laterano, St Peter's, San Paolo fuori le mura, Santa Maria Maggiore, San Lorenzo fuori le ...
The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae (List of the churches of the city of Rome) or Salzburg Itinerary is a pilgrims' guide composed in the mid 7th century, perhaps under Pope Honorius I. [1] It was discovered in a codex in Salzburg and is now in the Austrian National Library.
Pope Marcellus I (A.D. 306–308) is said to have recognized twenty five tituli in the City of Rome, quasi dioecesis. [5] It is known that in 336, Pope Julius I had set the number of presbyter cardinals to 28, [6] so that for each day of the week, a different presbyter cardinal would say mass in one of the four major basilicas of Rome, St. Peter's, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls ...
The several churches and basilicas in Lourdes – associated with Marian apparitions receive over 5 million pilgrims a year, making Lourdes the second most visited Christian pilgrimage site in Europe after Rome. Paris – the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, and Basilica of Sacré-Coeur in Montmartre; Basilica of St. Thérèse (Lisieux) – in ...
Map by Giacomo Lauro and Antonio Tempesta depicting Saint Mary Major among the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome in 1599, in view of the Holy Year of 1600. A Catholic church can only be honored with the title of basilica by apostolic grant or from immemorial custom. [18] St. Mary Major is one of the only four that hold the title of "major basilica".
Churches of Rome by rione (22 C) + Former churches in Rome (1 C, 1 P) B. Baroque church buildings in Rome (5 P) Pages in category "Churches in Rome"
The following is a list of Basilicas in Rome. An ecclesiastical basilica is a Roman Catholic church building which has been granted special status by the Pope . There are 66 such churches in Rome , more than any other city, [ Note 1 ] and more than 125 of the 131 countries in the world that have basilicas.
Destroyed Roman Catholic churches in Rome (19 P) Pages in category "Roman Catholic churches in Rome" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total.