Santa Sabina interior.

Santa Sabina interior.

The basilica of Santa Sabina all'Aventino is the center of the Dominican order, and is located in Rome. Its Cardinal Priest is Jozef Cardinal Tomko. Santa Sabina lies high on the Aventine Hill, riverside, close to the headquarters of the Knights of Malta. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1706 KB) Summary Roma, santa Sabina (interno) by Lalupa 2005 - PD Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Santa Sabina Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2272x1704, 1706 KB) Summary Roma, santa Sabina (interno) by Lalupa 2005 - PD Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Santa Sabina Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create... Download high resolution version (512x768, 81 KB) ©  This image is copyrighted. ... Download high resolution version (512x768, 81 KB) ©  This image is copyrighted. ... The Basilica of St. ... The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum), more commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic religious order. ... 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  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000... Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ... His Eminence Jozef Cardinal Tomko, prefect Emeritus of Evangelization of Peoples. ... The Aventine Hill is one of the seven hills that ancient Rome was built on. ... The Knights Hospitaller (the or Knights of Malta or Knights of Rhodes) is a tradition which began as a Benedictine nursing Order founded in the 11th century based in the Holy Land, but soon became a militant Christian Chivalric Order under its own charter, and was charged with the care...

Santa Sabina is an early basilica (5th century), with a classical rectangular plan and columns. The decorations have been restored to their original modesty, mostly white. Together with the light pouring in from the windows, this makes the Santa Sabina an airy and roomy place. Other basilicas, such as the Santa Maria Maggiore, are often heavily and gaudily decorated. Because of its simplicity, the Santa Sabina represents the crossover from a roofed Roman forum to the churches of Christendom. The Basilica of St. ... // Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor Rome sacked by Visigoths in 410. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ... Forums on computers are really good you really should join one to share your ideas ... This medieval map, which abstracts the known world to a cross inscribed within an orb, remakes geography in the service of Christian iconography. ...

History

Santa Sabina was built by Priest Petrus of Illyria, a Dalmatian priest, between 422 and 432 on the site of the house of the Roman matron Sabina, who was later declared a canonized Christian saint. It was originally near to a temple of Juno. Priest Petrus was of Illyrian origins and lived in the 5th century. ... In classical history, Illyria or Illyricum or Illyrikon was a region in the western part of todays Balkan Peninsula inhabited by the tribes and clans of Illyrians, an ancient people who probably spoke an Indo-European language (the Illyrian languages). ... Dalmatia (Croatian Dalmacija, Italian Dalmazia, Serbian Далмација) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, mostly in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Pag in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. ... Events September 10 - Celestine succeeds Boniface as Pope Births Deaths September 4 - Pope Boniface I Liu Yu (Song Wu Di), ruler of the Chinese Song Dynasty Faxian, Chinese Buddhist monk (approximate date) Categories: 422 ... Events July 31 - Sixtus is elected to succeed Celestine as Pope. ... Canonization is the process of declaring someone a saint and involves proving that a candidate has lived in such a way that he or she is worthy of sainthood. ... 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...

In 1219, the church was given by Pope Honorius III to St. Dominic, for his new order, the Order of Preachers, now commonly known as the Dominicans. Since then, it has been their headquarters. // Events Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade The Flag of Denmark fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse Ongoing events Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) Births Christopher I of Denmark (died 1259) Frederick II of Austria (died 1246) Guillaume de Gisors, supposedly the... Honorius III, né Cencio Savelli (b. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum), more commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic religious order. ...

Features

Depiction of the crucifixion on the wooden door of Santa Sabina. This is the first depiction of the crucifixion of Christ.

The wooden door of the basilica is the original door from the 5th century. It contains 18 wooden panels depicting scenes from the Bible. Most notable among these is one of the earliest certain depictions of Christ's crucifixion. Image File history File links SabinaCrucify. ... Image File history File links SabinaCrucify. ... The Bible (sometimes The Book, Good Book, Word of God, The Word, or Scripture), from Greek (τα) βιβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, plural of βιβλιον, biblion, book, originally a diminutive of βιβλος, biblos, which in turn is derived from βυβλος—byblos, meaning papyrus, from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported this writing material... Jesus, also known as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and an important prophet in Islam. ... Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross (Latin: crux) and left to hang there until dead. ...

Above the doorway, the interior preserves an original dedication in Latin hexameter. Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Hexameter is a literary and poetic form, consisting of six metrical feet per line as in the Iliad. ...

The interior cells for the Dominican friars are little changed since the earliest days of the Order of Preachers. The cell of St. Dominic is still identified, though it has since been enlarged and converted to a chapel. Also, the original dining room still remains, in which St. Thomas Aquinas would dine when he came to Rome. A monastery is the habitation of monks, derived from the Greek word for a hermits cell. ... A chapel is a private church, usually small and often attached to a larger institution such as a college, a hospital, a palace, or a prison. ... Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. ...

The campanile (bell tower) dates from the 10th century. St. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000. ...

External links

• Thayer's Gazetteer, with Mario Armellini's Le Chiese di Roma
• Churches of Rome, Santa Sabina all'Aventino