Facade of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme is a basilica in Rome. It is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (669x863, 309 KB) Image: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Roma) Author: de:Benutzer:Moguntiner; Date of creation: October 2003 Licence: GNU-FDL File links The following pages link to this file: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (669x863, 309 KB) Image: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Roma) Author: de:Benutzer:Moguntiner; Date of creation: October 2003 Licence: GNU-FDL File links The following pages link to this file: Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ... The Basilica of Saint Peter is the largest church in Christianity and often used by the Pope. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2. ... The Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome are seven churches in Rome, which are visited by pilgrims in order to gain indulgences. ...

The basilica was consecrated around 325 to house the Passion Relics brought to Rome by St. Helena of Constantinople, mother of Constantine I. In that occasion, the basilica floor was covered with ground from Jerusalem, thus acquiring the title in Hierusalem. Events May 20 - First Council of Nicaea - first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church: The Nicene Creed is formulated, the date of Easter is discussed. ... The Passion is the technical term for the suffering and Agony of Jesus that led directly to the Crucifixion, a central Christian event. ... Helena on a coin. ... Contemporary bronze head of Constantine. ... Jerusalem (31°46′N 35°14′E; Hebrew: (help· info) Yerushalayim; Arabic: (help· info) al-Quds) is an ancient Middle Eastern city on the watershed between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea at an elevation of 650-840 meter. ...

The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Crucis in Hierusalem is Miloslav Vlk. Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ... His Eminence Cardinal Vlk His Eminence Miloslav Cardinal Vlk (born May 17, 1932) is the head of the Czech Catholic Church, the archbishop of Prague, and was considered a papabile (i. ...

History

The church foundation is related to a room pertaining to St. Helena's palace, Palazzo Sessoriano, which she adapted to a chapel around the year 320. Some decennia later the chapel was turned into a true basilica, called Heleniana or Sessoriana. After a long age of decaying, the church was restored by Pope Lucius II (1144-1145). In the occasion it assumed a Romanesque appearance, with three naves, a belfry and a porch. The church was also modified in the 16th century, assuming the current appearance under Benedict XIV (1740-1758). New streets were also opened to connect the church to the two other Roman basilicas linked to Jesus' life, San Giovanni in Laterano and Santa Maria Maggiore. The façade of Santa Croce, designed by Corrado Giacquinto and Domenico Gregorini, shares the typical late Roman Baroque taste with the former basilicas. Lucius II, né Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso (d. ... Romanesque St. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini (Bologna, March 31, 1675 – Rome, May 3, 1758), was Pope from 1740 to 1758. ... Late Baroque façade of the Basilica, completed, after a competition for the design, by Alessandro Galilei in 1735 St. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In the arts, Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the artistic style that dominated it. ...

Passion relics

The famous relics, whose authenticity is disputed, are now housed in a Chapel (the Cappella delle Reliquie), built in 1930 by architect Florestano di Fausto. They include: a part of Bethlehem. The relics were once in the ancient St. Helena's Chapel, which is partly under gound level. Here the founder of the church had some earth from the Calvary dispersed, whence the name in Hierusalem of the basilica. In the vault is a mosaic designed by Melozzo da Forlì (before 1485), depicting Jesus Blessing, Histories of the Cross and various saints. The altar has a huge statue of St. Helena, which was obtained from an ancient statue of Juno discovered at Ostia. The mediaeaval pilgrim guides considered this chapel so holy that access to women was forbidden. 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... The Church of the Nativity, a Bethlehem Landmark Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم (help· info) house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem) (Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of... Calvary (Golgotha) is the English-language name given to the hill outside Jerusalem on which Jesus was crucified according to Christian tradition. ... Melozzo da Forlì Melozzo da Forlì (Forlì, Italy, c. ... Juno can refer to: Juno, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Hera A guardian spirit for Roman women (equivalent of the male Genius) Jupiter IRBM rocket (Juno II) the Jupiter-C IRBM rocket (Juno or Juno I) the Juno Awards, a Canadian music award festival Juno Beach, one of... Ostia scale model The Temple of the goddess Roma on the Forum of Ostia Ostia, an ancient town on the coast facing the Tyrrhenian Sea, in Latium, Italy, was the harbour of ancient Rome and perhaps its first colonia. ...

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References

• Paolo Coen, Le Sette Chiese, Newton Compton, Rome
• Claudio Rendina, La grande Enciclopedia di Roma, Netwon Compton, Rome

External links

• www.basilicasantacroce.it, official website
• "Santa Croce in Gerusalemme" by Chris Nyborg