 Inside of Santa Prassede. The basilica of Santa Prassede is located in the eastern part of Rome, near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The church in its current form was commissioned by Pope Paschal I in 800. and built on top of the remains of a fifth century structure and was designed to house the bones of Saints Prassede and Pudenziana, the daughters of St. Pudens, St. Paul's first Christian convert in Rome. The two female saints were murdered for providing Christian burial for early martyrs in defiance of Roman law. The Basilica of St. ...
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Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ...
Saint Paschal I was pope from 817 to February 11, 824. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Events December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. Celtic monks begin work on the Book of Kells on the Island of Iona. ...
(4th century - 5th century - 6th century - other centuries) Events Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ...
The name Saint Paul may refer to one of several possible meanings or references, though it is most commonly used to refer to the Biblical Paul of Tarsus. ...
Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ...
 Pope Paschal I depicted in the mosaic of Santa Prassede. He is presenting a model of the church to Christ, and wears a squared halo, which means he was alive at the time of the mosaic. Pope Paschal, in 800, was at the forefront of the Carolingian Renaissance started and advocated by the Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne. They desired to get back to the foundations of Christianity theologically and artistically. Paschal, thus, began two, linked, ambitious programs: the recovery of martyrs' bones from the catacombs of Rome and an almost unprecedented church building campaign. Paschal dug up numerous skeletons and transplanted them to this church. Saint Paschal I was pope from 817 to February 11, 824. ...
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The Carolingian Renaissance refers to the often-rejected but just as frequently resuscitated idea that a flowering of literature, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical and scriptural studies occurred during and shortly after the reign of Charlemagne, that this flowering was consciously nurtured by the court, and that this flowering was...
The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ...
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The word catacomb comes from Greek kata kumbas (L. ad catacumbas), near the low place and originally it meant a certain burial district in Rome. ...
Mosaics The most impressive element of the church, clearly, is the mosaic decorative program. Paschal hired a team of professional mosaicists to complete the work in the apse, the apsidal arch, and the triumphal arch. In the apse, Jesus is in the center, flanked by Sts. Peter and Paul who present Prassede and Pudenziana to God. On the far left is Paschal, with the squared halo of the living, presenting a model of the church as an offering to Jesus. Below runs an inscription of Paschal's, hoping that this offering will be sufficient to secure his place in heaven. Jump to: navigation, search Mosaic is a medium of art that may embody the most meaningful iconography in a cultures most important settings, as in the cathedral of Monreale (below), or it may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Halo around the sun at the South Pole (NOAA) A halo (also known as a nimbus) is a ring of light that surrounds an object. ...
On the apsidal arch are 12 men on each side, holding wreaths of victory, welcoming the souls into heaven. Above them are symbols of the four Gospel writers: Mark, the lion; Matthew, the man; Luke, the bull; and John, the eagle, as they surround a lamb on a throne, a symbol of Christ's eventual return to Earth.
Though those mosaics as well as those in the San Zeno chapel, a funerary chapel Paschal built for his mother, Theodora, are the most well-known aspects of the church, an intriguing and relatively hidden aspect are ancient frescoes. Ascending a spiral staircase, one enters a small room, covered in scaffolding. However, on the wall is a fresco cycle dating most likely from the eighth century. One can get up next to the frescoes and examine their content, most likely the life-cycle of the name saint of the church, Prassede, and truly gain a personal relationship with these works of art.
Titulus The Titulus S. Paxedis was established by Pope Evaristus, around 112. Evaristus was Pope from about 98 to 105 (99 to 108 in the Vaticans Annuario Pontificio of 2003). ...
112 is also the standard emergency phone number in the European Union and on GSM cellphones, analogous to 911 in the US. Events Imp. ...
Among known titulars of this see there are Silvanus Antonius (318), Serraus Aquileus (or Serranus) (335), Domitius Ligus (387), Annius Longus (421), Severus Flavius (475), Ginesius (478), Sebastianus (482), Lorentius Caelius (494), Paschal Massimi — later Pope Paschal I — (796), Ottavius Elarius (829), Aldemar (1062), Benedictus Caius (1073), Desiderius (after 1077), Lambertus Scannabecchi — later Pope Honorius II — (1099), Desiderius (1105), Ublado Allucingoli — later Pope Lucius III — (1141). Pope Honorius II should not be confused with Antipope Honorius II, otherwise known as Peter Cadalus. ...
Lucius III, né Ubaldo Allucingoli (1097 – November 25, 1185), was pope from September 1, 1181 to his death. ...
The current Cardinal Priest of Titulus S. Praxedis is Paul Cardinal Poupard. Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Paul Joseph Jean Cardinal Poupard (born 1930) is a Roman Catholic cardinal and President Emeritus of Culture at the Vatican. ...
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