The column and the arch : essays on architectural history (1899)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co. · leaf 336
first century St. Anacletus, fourth bishop ofEome, consecrated by St. Peters own hands,built a modest oratory over the tomb where theapostle had been laid after his martyrdom on theneighboring Janiculan Hill. Two centuries later,we are told, Constantine, passing the spot as heentered Kome in… … f SAINT PETERS 263 St. Peter. This clmrcli, built in 324-30, lastednearly twelve centuries — the most veneratedchurch in Christendom, and in course of time themost sumptuous. It gradually usurped the impor-tance that originally belonged to the Popes ownchurch, the basilica of St. John…
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