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Santi Dodici Apostoli (Church of the Twelve Holy Apostles; Latin: SS. Duodecim Apostolorum), commonly known as Santi Apostoli, is a 6th-century Catholic parish and titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy, the mother church of the Conventual Franciscan Order whose General Curia (world headquarters) is in the adjacent building. [2]
St. Paul's Tomb Unearthed in Rome on National Geographic News, including a photograph of a side of the sarcophagus. The tombs of the apostles: Saint Paul; Reliquary of St. Anne's forearm venerated in a side chapel "Beggar's Rome" - A self-directed virtual tour of St. Paul Outside the Walls and other Roman churches
Very little is known about the burial of Peter's immediate successors, prior to the period when popes are known with relative certainty to have been buried in the various Catacombs of Rome. Burial near Peter, on Vatican Hill, is attributed to: Pope Linus, Pope Anacletus, Pope Evaristus, Pope Telesphorus, Pope Hyginus, Pope Pius I, Pope Anicetus ...
The original Church of the Holy Apostles was dedicated in about 330 by Constantine the Great, the founder of Constantinople, the new capital of the Roman Empire.The church was unfinished when Constantine died in 337, and it was completed by his son and successor Constantius II, who buried his father's remains there.
Philip: buried in the Church of the Holy Apostles in Rome or possibly Hierapolis, modern Turkey. [92] [84] Simon the Zealot: buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome under the St. Joseph altar with St. Jude. [93] Thomas: buried in the San Thome Basilica in Chennai, India or in the Basilica of St. Thomas the Apostle in Ortona, Italy. [94] [95]
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican City (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Citta di Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri; Italian: Basilica di San Pietro [baˈziːlika di sam ˈpjɛːtro]), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.
The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (officially, the Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Cathedral of the Most Holy Saviour and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of All Churches in Rome and in the World, and commonly known as the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran) [c] is the Catholic cathedral of the Diocese of Rome in the city of Rome ...
Originally buried in the Church of St. Matthew; discovered in 1573, opened in 1578, reburied beneath the Salerno altar; opened again in 1605 (head taken to Cathedral of Soana; corpse translated to chapel of the Crociata); original sarcophagus placed in transept in 1954 [39] 24 May 1086 – 16 September 1087 Victor III, O.S.B. Blessed Victor Unknown