Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura
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Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls (Italian: Basilica di San Paolo fuori le Mura) is one of the four churches that are the great ancient major basilicas or papal basilicas of Rome which are the basilicas of St. John Lateran, St. Maria Maggiore, and St. Peter and Saint Paul Outside the Walls. Unlike all the rest, it stands outside the Aurelian walls in the southern part of the Eternal City. In 1980 it entered the World Heritage List.
It was the Roman Emperor Constantine I who founded a basilica over the burial place of Saint Paul (in 2006, archaeologists announced that they found his sarcophagus under the Temple). Here it is said that a pious Roman matron, Lucyna, buried the remains of the apostle. By the ending of the IVth century, the grand cathedral was built: on the inscription on the mosaic of the triumphal arc it is written that Teodosius started its construction, Onorius ended its construction, and under Papa Leon I (440-461), Placidia renovated and decorated it.
This splendid cathedral, one of the wonders of the world, was destroyed by a fire in 1823. It is rebuilt in 1854 on the same foundation, on the basis of the old project, by Papa Pius IX. The grand square portico, with 150 columns, with the statue of Saint Paul in centre, creates the impression of a typical Roman basilica.
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