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	Basilica of St. John Lateran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Basilica of St. John Lateran — in Italian, the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano — is the cathedral church of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Pope.
		The palace basilica was converted and extended, eventually becoming the cathedral of Rome, the seat of the popes as patriarchs of Rome.
		During the Avignon papacy, the Lateran Palace and the basilica began to decline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._John_Lateran (1681 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lateran Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Lateran Palace, sometimes more formally known as the Palace of the Lateran, is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later a Palace of the Popes.
		Between this palace and the Lateran Basilica was the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, then believed to represent Constantine, which now is at the Capitol.
		The Lateran Palace came eventually into the hands of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, through his wife Fausta, and it is from her that it derived the name by which it was then sometimes called, Domus FaustÃ¦.
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		This was the period of its greatest magnificence, when Dante (An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)) speaks of it as beyond all human achievements.
		The whole of the front of the palace was taken up with the "Aula Concilii", a magnificent hall with eleven apses, in which were held the various Councils of the Lateran (additional info and facts about Councils of the Lateran) during the medieval period.
		An apse lined with mosaics and open to the air still preserves the memory of one of the most famous halls of the ancient palace, the "Triclinium" of Leo III (The pope who in 800 crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans (750-816)), which was the state banqueting hall.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lateran_palace.htm (303 words)

	Apostolic Palace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Apostolic Palace, also called the Papal Palace or the Palace of the Vatican, is the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.
		The palace is a complex of buildings, comprising the Papal Apartment, the Roman Catholic church's government offices, a handful of chapels, the Vatican Museum and the Vatican library.
		The other papal residences are at the Lateran Palace and the Castel Gandolfo outside Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apostolic_Palace (208 words)

	Lateran Councils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From the reign of Constantine the Great until the removal of the papal Court to Avignon, the Lateran palace and basilica served the bishops of Rome as residence and cathedral.
		During this long period the popes had occasion to convoke a number of general councils, and for this purpose they made choice of cities so situated as to reduce as much as possible the inconveniences which the bishops called to such assemblies must necessarily experience by reason of long and costly absence from their sees.
		Five of these councils were held in the Lateran palace, and are known as the First (1123), Second (1139), Third (1179), Fourth (1215), and Fifth Lateran Councils.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/lateran_councils.html (274 words)

	LATERAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lateran is the name given to a group of buildings in the Vatican City facing the Piazza San Giovanni, on land once belonging to the Laterani and given to the Church by Constantine.
		The basilica, also known as St. John Lateran, is the cathedral of Rome, as well as the pope's church, serving as the first-ranking church in the Roman Catholic world.
		The original Lateran palace was replaced in the 16th century by its present form.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/la/Lateran.htm (115 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lateran, Italy (Italian Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The Lateran basilica is the cathedral of Rome, the pope's church, the first-ranking church of the Roman Catholic Church.
		The Lateran palace, the papal residence until the 14th cent., survived, greatly changed, until the 16th cent., when it was demolished to make way for the much smaller present palace.
		The older palace was the scene of the five Lateran Councils, and the new one of the signing of the Lateran Treaty.
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	Lateran Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The first Lateran Council, the ninth ecumenical council (1123), was held during the reign of Pope Calixtus II.
		The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Friedrich I. Barbarossa (1123-1190), agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized.
		The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512–17), was convoked by Pope Julius II.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /gbrown/philosophers/leibniz/BritannicaPages/LateranCouncil/LateranCouncil.html (621 words)

	Wikinfo \| St. John Lateran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Some few remains of the original buildings may still be traced in the city walls outside the Gate of St. John, and a large hall decorated with paintings was uncovered in the eighteenth century within the basilica itself, behind the Lancellotti Chapel.
		The palace came eventually into the hands of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, through his wife Fausta, and it is from her that it derived the name by which it was then sometimes called, "Domus Faustæ".
		The palace, however, was never again used by them as a residence, the Vatican, which stands in a much drier and healthier position, being chosen in its place.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=St._John_Lateran (1116 words)

	St John Lateran L12
		The Lateran palace was probably conceived as a summer residence of the pontiffs, but it was never used as one.
		The facade of the eastern side of the palace was finished under Clement XII who had his coat-of-arms attached to the top of it in 1735.
		In the beginning of the 4th century one part of the Lateran Palaces assigned by Constantine as a residence of Roman bishop, was transformed in Christian basilica probably built between 314 and 318, and was dedicated to the Redeemer and later to St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/L12.htm (1433 words)

	Lateran Council -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		The second Lateran Council, the 10th ecumenical council (1139), was convoked by Pope Innocent II to condemn as schismatics the followers of Arnold of Brescia, a vigorous reformer and opponent of the temporal power of the pope, and to end the schism created by the election of Anacletus II, a rival pope.
		The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized.
		The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512–17), was convoked by Pope Julius II in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the Pope.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9047280 (1296 words)

	Scala Sancta (Holy Stairs)
		From old plans it can be gathered that they led to a corridor of the Lateran Palace, near the Chapel of St. Sylvester, were covered with a special roof, and had at their sides other stairs for common use.
		When Sixtus V in 1589 destroyed the old papal palace and built the new one, he ordered the Holy Stairs be transferred to their present site, before the Sancta Sanctorum (Holy of Holies).
		The latter is the old private papal chapel, dedicated to St. Lawrence, and the only remaining part of the former Lateran Palace, receiving its name from the many precious relics preserved there.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/scala_sancta.html (434 words)

	Dr. Jack Freiberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Lateran area on the slope of the Caelian Hill in the southern area of the city occupies a parallel position of honor in the rise of Christian Rome.
		John's actions, undertaken within recent memory, parallel the history of the Lateran during the Counter-Reformation period when a similar renewal of the Church was initiated and the Lateran provided a field for the expression of reform ideology.
		The revival of the Lateran in the second half of the sixteenth century and the visual expression this revival received during the reign of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) are the principal themes of the present study.
	www.fsu.edu /~arh/people/faculty/Freiberg/excerpt.html (1717 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LATERAN COUNCILS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Councils of the Church held at Rome in the papal palace on Lateran Hill, whence their title.
		At the former or third Lateran Council the Church law with regard to Jews having Christian servants was reenacted, and those Christians were excommunicated who even lodged among Jews.
		At the great Lateran Council of 1215 further steps were taken by the Church to check usury.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint John Lateran
		Great works were begun at the Lateran by Martin V and his successors.
		It was not until the latter part of the seventeenth century that the church took its present appearance, in the tasteless restoration carried out by Innocent X, with Borromini for his architect.
		From the beginning of the fourth century, when it was given to the pope by Constantine, the palace of the Lateran was the principal residence of the popes, and continued so for about a thousand years.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09014b.htm (2866 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: The Lateran Palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was destroyed by fire in the years 1307 and 1361, and during the pontificate of Sixtus V (1585-1590) the architect Fontana replaced the building with a smaller edifice.
		Pius IX established the Museum of Catacomb Inscriptions and Christian Antiquities in the Lateran Palace, 1854, under the guardianship of Cardinal Patrizi, Monsignor Castellani and Monsignor Tizzani, Father Marchi, S.J., and G. De Rossi.
		It was in the Hall of the Popes that the Roman Question was settled by The Lateran Treaty, 10 February 1929.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd04647.htm (185 words)

	Lateran Councils
		The Lateran councils were five ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic church held during the 12th, 13th, and 16th centuries at the Lateran Palace in Rome.
		The Second Lateran Council (1139) was convoked by Pope Innocent II to reaffirm the unity of the church after the schism (1130-38) of the antipope Anacletus II (d.
		This was the law enacted in a council at the Lateran in 1050, which restricted the election to the cardinals.[4a] To them alone it belongs, henceforth, to elect the pope, and a majority of their votes is essential and sufficient.
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		Lateran The ancient palace of the Laterani, given by the Emperor Constantine to the popes.
		The palace which was built on the site of this vault was called the “Lateran,” or the palace of the hidden frog.
		The palace (once a residence of the popes) is now a museum.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/255/1177/23242/2.html (675 words)

	Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran, mother of all churches
		We celebrate today the Dedication of the Basilica of St John Lateran in Rome because it is the head and mother church of all churches in the world.
		Constantine had been given the palace in Rome that belonged to the Laterani and after his conversion to Christianity he gave it to the Pope.
		November 324 and the Pope then lived in the Lateran Palace as it was called for the next 1000 years and the basilica was his cathedral.
	www.frtommylane.com /homilies/years_abc/dedication_basilica_john_lateran.htm (882 words)

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		It was Pope Sixtus V who, in 1585, issued an official notice of the contract to build a new large and sumptuous palace for use by the Popes as a dwelling place for them and their court.
		To build the present Apostolic Lateran Palace, the Pope had the splendid complex of the ancient patriarchal complex demolished, despite the wealth of memory that resided there.
		This operation was justified on the grounds that the patriarchal palace was in a state of terminal decay and that it was shameful that the Bishop of Rome should not have a convenient dwelling next to his cathedral.
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	Lives of the Saints, November 9, Dedication of the Lateran Basilica, Saint Theodore Tyro
		The residence of the Popes which was named the Lateran Palace was built by Lateranus Palutius, whom Nero put to death to seize his goods.
		The Lateran Basilica built by Constantine near the palace of the same name, is the first Basilica of the West.
		Thus in his own Lateran palace, he dedicated a church to the Saviour, and founded the attached baptistry under the name of Saint John the Baptist, in the place where he himself, baptized by Saint Sylvester, had been cured of leprosy.
	magnificat.ca /cal/engl/11-09.htm (953 words)

	St Peter's - Saint Peter's by James Lees-Milne
		The Lateran we have to remember was just within the ancient walls of the city; the Vatican Hill without, which accounts for the fact that for centuries after it was built St Peter's Basilica stood entirely exposed and isolated on its eminence.
		When Pope Symmachus, driven from the Lateran Palace by the antipope Laurentius, took refuge in St Peter's, there was not a single apartment outside the church were he could even spend the night.
		The Vatican Palace was at the end of the fifteenth century still a congeries of piecemeal structures making no concession to their surroundings, and scarcely deserving the name of architecture.
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Docs/JLM/SaintPeters-5.htm (7670 words)

	Catholic World News : Background: St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral
		For several centuries, the Roman Pontiff lived in the Lateran palace adjacent to the church itself.
		And five councils took place at the basilica: Lateran I in 1123, Lateran II in 1139, Lateran III in 1179, Lateran Iv in 1215, and Lateran V in 1512.
		It was also at the Lateran Palace that the "Lateran Accords" were signed in 1929, establishing the terms of the agreement which-- with later amendments-- still governs relations between the Vatican city-state and the Italian republic.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=36986 (367 words)

	CHURCHES OF ROME
		It was to Pope Melchiade (311-314) that Constantine gave the palace on Monte Celio, formerly property of the patrician Laterani family (hence the basilica's appellation "Lateran"), which his second wife Fausta (Maxentius' sister) had brought to the marriage.
		Henceforth, the Lateran palace, known as the Patriarchate, was the Pope's official residence until the fifteenth century.
		In 1929 the Lateran Pacts, which established the territory and status of the State of Vatican City, were signed here between the Holy See and the Government of Italy.
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