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	MSN Encarta - Vatican City
		Vatican City, independent state within Rome, Italy, that is ruled by the pope and serves as the world headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
		Vatican City is the last remnant of the Papal States, a swath of territories in central Italy acquired over the centuries by the Catholic Church and governed by the pope.
		Vatican City was established in 1929 under terms of the Lateran Treaty, concluded by the Italian government and the papacy after many years of controversy.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761551674 (901 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican
		North of the printing offices and parallel to the eastern longitudinal wing of the palace is the huge house which Pius X reconstructed for the married officials and the servants of the palace.
		The Vatican museums are: (1) The Museo Pio-Clementino; (2) the Galleria Chiaramonti; (3) the Braccio Nuovo; (4) the Egyptian Museum; (5) the Etruscan Museum.
		The Vatican dispensary, which was formerly in the Cortile di San Damaso, was recently transferred to the quarters of the Swiss Guards, and lies at the door of the Torrione di Nicolò V which leads to the city.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15276b.htm (16595 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Vatican City
		Entirely surrounded by Rome, Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with an area of 44 hectares (110 acres).
		Vatican Radio is the official radio station, and powerful transmitters beam “the pope’s voice” to a global audience.
		Adjacent to the basilica and square is the Palace of the Vatican, also known as the Papal Palace.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761551674__1/Vatican_City.html (1252 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.
		After the final overthrow of the Papal States in 1870, the King of Italy confiscated that palace in 1871, making it the king's official residence; after the abolition of the Italian monarchy in 1946, it became the president's residence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palace_of_the_Vatican (183 words)

	Friends - The Gaymap - Vatican City
		The smallest independent country in the world, Vatican City was established in 1929 under terms of the Lateran Treaty, concluded by the Italian government and the papacy after many years of controversy.
		The Vatican's museums are outstanding and include the Gregorian Museum of Egyptian Art; the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art; the Pio Clementino Museum, with a superlative collection of antiquities; the Chiaramonti Museum; and the Vatican Pinacoteca, with representative works by Italian masters.
		Vatican City is governed by the pope, who has absolute executive, legislative, and judicial powers.
	www.gaymap.info /vatican (555 words)

	Articles on Pope Pius XII and the Vatican Diplomacy during the II World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But the Vatican said Saturday that a chunk of the archive dating from 1931 to 1934 was "nearly completely destroyed or dispersed" during the 1945 bombing of Berlin and a fire at the apostolic nuncio's palace.
		At the time, the Vatican was under fresh criticism from Jewish groups after a panel of Catholic and Jewish scholars studying the Vatican's wartime record said it was suspending its work because the Vatican had not released all its wartime archives.
		The Vatican has said the documents, including files on wartime prisoners, would show historians "the great works of charity and assistance" undertaken by Pius XII for prisoners and other victims regardless of nation, religion or race.
	pioxii.150m.com /enartic.htm (11184 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Vatican as a Scientific Institute
		Special archives are possessed by the administrations of the majordomo, the maestro di camera, the master of the sacred palace, the administrations of the Peterspence, the Elemosineria, the Computesteria, the Floreria, the maestro di casa, the three corps of guards, and the gendarmes.
		The Vatican Library is the first among the great libraries of the world in the importance of its materials, but in the number of its manuscripts a few libraries surpass it, and in the number of printed books it is surpassed by many.
		The assertions that the Vatican Library was the property not of the Church or of the Holy See, but of the late Papal States, were meant to prepare the way for the eventual seizure of the library, or at least its withdrawal from the operation of the Law of Guarantees.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15286a.htm (10860 words)

	Janson Media: The Vatican Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the Vatican Hill of Rome one can find a chronicle of the history of man. It is a system of buildings, Museums, monuments and irreplaceable works of art telling of the great adventure of human civilization.
		This volume explains how the Museums were organized in the ancient Vatican Palaces at the very time when a plethora of projects and works had been entrusted to great architects such as Bramante and Michelangelo for a wide-ranging reorganization of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Palaces.
		After a general presentation of the arrangement of the Vatican Palaces and Museums, the next volumes in the series proceed in a tour of discovery through each single part in the great design.
	www.janson.com /videos/vatican/vol1.html (1030 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Benedict XVI receives Italy's president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI met with the Italian president Tuesday in the first formal audience for a head of state since he was elected pontiff.
		Benedict, the former German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was elected to the pontificate on April 19 in one of the shortest conclaves in a century.
		Pope Benedict XVI welcomes Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as they meet in the papal library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, Tuesday, May 3, 2005 in the first formal audience for a head of state since he was elected pontiff.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/03/benedict_xvi_receives_italys_president_1115152956 (217 words)

	Vatican City Tours - Interesting Things & Famous Places
		The Vatican City is situated entirely within the city of Rome, sprawling over a hill west of the River Tiber, and separated from the rest of the city by a wall.
		Vatican City comprises St Peter's Church, St Peter's Square, the Vatican and the Vatican Gardens.
		Among the principal features of the Palace are the Stanze, the Sistine Chapel, the Garden House or Belvedere, the Vatican Library and the Vatican Collections, containing major works of art and valuable pictures.
	travel-island.com /interesting2places/vatican_city.html (1006 words)

	Daily Bible Study - The Vatican
		Vatican City is the world-famous residence of the papacy, whose history is deeply linked with that of Europe itself.
		The Vatican is destined to assume a very prominent position in the new Europe.
		Vatican City includes St. Peter's Church, the Papal Palace, the Vatican Museums, the Vatican Gardens, the Vatican Library, Belvedere Park, and other buildings between Viale Vaticano and the Church.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/vatican.htm (218 words)

	Rome - The great Pontifical Palace, the Vatican
		The first Vatican Palace was built by Pope Symmachus (498-514), and some say it was used by Charlemagne at his coronation, but a new Church residence was begun in 1150 by Eugene III.
		In this Palace of the Vatican we are impressed with the fact that art has done much to add glory to the Christian faith.
		When he is about to leave the palace, he admits that he is " completely turned about " in all his ideas of the place, and, in fact, he would find it impossible to give friends at home any accurate description of the vast structure or the relation of its various parts.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/rome-6.shtml (3564 words)

	Vatican Museums
		The four rooms commonly known as the "Rooms of Raphael" were part of - togheter with the "Chiaroscuri" room, the Old Room of the Swiss, the cubicle with its adjoining heater, the Nicholine Chapel and the Loggia - the new residence chosen by Julius II on the third floor of the building.
		Founded in 1854 by Pius IX in the Lateran Palace to house the Christian antiquities found during the excavations of the catacombs, the Museo Pio Cristiano was transferred to the Vatican in 1963.
		The material is vast and various and is presented according to didactic principles so as to document the religious cult of the various civilisation which have flourished in other continents over an enormous span of time, from centuries before the coming of Christ right up to our times.
	www.roma2000.it /zmusvat.html (1075 words)

	Romeguide: Vatican palaces
		One of the most sumptuous and articulated monumental complexes in the world is without doubt that of the Vatican Palaces, which began to be built in the 14th century so as to house as befitted their rank the popes who had finally"returned " from their stay in Avignon,and who had previously resided in the Lateran.
		The first pope to take up permanent abode in the Vatican was Gregory XI and his successors later enlarged and beautified the com-plex.In 1410 Alexander V had the communication "corridor "built between the palace and Castel Sant'Angelo.
		The highlight ofthe Baroque in the Vatican Palace coincides w ith the papacy of Sixtus V and the architect Domenico Fontana, who designed the present papal residence and " cut " the Belvedere with the Cortile trasversale (now seat of the Sistine Hall of the Library).
	www.romeguide.it /FILES/palaces.htm (471 words)

	Sistine Chapel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Sistine Chapel (Italian: Cappella Sistina) is a chapel in the Palace of the Vatican, the official residence of the Roman Catholic Pope in the Vatican City.
		It was built between 1475 and 1483, in the time of Pope Sixtus IV, and is one of the most famous churches of the Western World.
		Peter's Basilica, after the Scala Regia, and originally served as the Palatine chapel inside the old Vatican fortress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sistine_Chapel (1399 words)

	Exhibitions - High Renaissance in Vatican - CAD Reconstruction
		The Vatican palace which had been used as papal residence since the 5th century A. was repeatedly added to or altered in the course of the subsequent 1,500 years.
		The objective of the 3D CAD reconstruction is to illustrate the complex structure of the Vatican and, above all, the functions of the individual rooms, too.
		Numerous theories on the building and construction history of the Vatican palace are based on plans of the early 19th century.
	www2.kah-bonn.de /1/25/cade.htm (566 words)

	Vatican City - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		It is located in Vatican City, in the Vatican Palace, which has been the residence of the pope (head of the Roman Catholic church) since the 14th century.
		The Vatican Palace was itself enlarged over many centuries.
		Much of the palace is open to the public, with a small area reserved as private space for the papal court.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /vatican_city.htm (253 words)

	RAPHAEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Around 1508-09 he was 25 and called to Rome by Pope Julius II to direct the decoration of the state rooms in the Vatican Palace.
		In the Vatican Palace his first room he completed was the so-called Stanza della Signatura (Room of the Signature).
		In the Vatican Palace he had the opportunity to apply his classical art on a grand scale.
	www.yesnet.yk.ca /schools/projects/renaissance/main/raphael.html (420 words)

	The Great Pontifical Palace and the Vatican
		Its main direction is almost north and south with a slight deflection to the east, and from the church to its farthest limit must be nearly a quarter of a mile.
		After King Victor Immanuel took possession of Rome in 1870, and the Pope withdrew to the imprisonment of the Vatican, all Rome went mad with the dream of a city that should surpass in ex-tent and population London and Paris.
		The ravages of time have begun to show in the old palace, and it is re-ported that great repairs must be made to save parts of it from falling.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/pilgrimage-10.shtml (1052 words)

	Vatican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Need for Vatican II Bishop Christopher Butler OSB Apostle of the Second Vatican Council Bishop B C Butler Pope John XXIII Let us not fear that truth might endanger truth ref The Need for Vatican II Printer Friendly View...
		INTRODUCTION Tha Vatican Meteorite Collection is housed in a single wood and glass case in the...
		Secrets of the Vatican Glimpses Behind the Purple Curtain Vatican officials have procedures to keep the Roman Catholic Churchís worst secrets secure, even when the Pope dies.
	theholysee.mureholy.com /vatican (1009 words)

	roma bed & breakfast - The Vatican Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vatican Museums are quite simply, the largest, richest, most compelling and perhaps most exhausting museum complex in the world.
		The Vatican Palace holds a collection of museums on very diverse subjects - displays of classical statuary, Renaissance painting, Etruscan relics Egyptian artefacts, not to mention the furnishing and decoration of the palace itself.
		The small Museo Pio-Clementio and its octagonal courtyard is home to some of the best of the Vatican's classical statuary, including two statues that influenced Renaissance artists more than any others: the serene Apollo Belvedere and the first century b.
	www.abcbb.com /ing/i_musei_vaticani.htm (320 words)

	Ignazio Danti
		The mini-sheet from the Vatican shows his map of the islands that became Venice.
		The design on stamp from the Vatican below is of Moravia, based on the Mappomundo Vaticano, drawn on the walls of the third gallery of the Vatican Palace by Danti, and decorated by Giovanni Antonio Vanosino.
		In 1998 the Vatican issued a set of postcards to commemorate the anniversary of the International Stamp Fair in Riccione, Italy.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/ignaziodante.htm (272 words)

	Inside the Vatican - Monthly Catholic Magazine
		Within moments, it was landing on the helicopter pad in the Vatican gardens, not far from the back wall of St. Peter's Basilica, at the very heart of the world's smallest state.
		De Carli was continually on the air informing Italians and the world about the Pope's illness and hospitalization.) On the topmost floor of the Vatican palace where John Paul II has his private apartment, the Holy Father was having trouble breathing.
		Dziwisz, widely regarded as one of the most powerful men in the Vatican today because of his role at the Pope's side, suggested to John Paul that it might be a good idea to go to the hospital to have his breathing checked.
	www.insidethevatican.com /newsflash-feb5-05.htm (1385 words)

	Bernini's Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Combining art and architecture, sculpture and decoration in an illusionistic ensemble, this monumental staircase served as the main entrance to the Vatican Palace, as well as the principal connection between the palace and St Peter’s basilica.
		This book is the first complete account of the Scala Regia in the context of the long building history of the Vatican Palace, the history of St Peter’s, and the architecture and sculpture of Bernini.
		The palace entrance and stairs during the Renaissance; 3.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521431980&print=y (253 words)

	Welcome to the Vatican Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I hope that this new site may be a useful instrument of knowledge and give access to the complex reality of our five hundred-year old art collections which are visited by more than three million people a year.
		The Vatican Museums are one of the most famous and renowned cultural institutions of the Holy See.
		They are known everywhere because of the masterpieces which the Roman Pontiffs have commissioned, collected and preserved during the ages.
	mv.vatican.va /3_EN/pages/MV_benvenuto.html (190 words)

	COMMENT: Some Ponderables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The President and her bright boys in the Palace surely know that, by protocol or propriety, Foreign Affairs Secretary Blas Ople cannot and should not issue a statement on matters within the province of the Department of Agriculture or Department of Justice.
		By the Palace statement, the President and her bright boys have simplified the issue of morality to "sinfulness".
		To this, the President and the Palace have this ready answer: "The Vatican or the Pope told the President GMOs are not sinful." But the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines is not saying "Amen".
	www.mindanews.com /2003/10/08vws-diaz.html (1250 words)

	St Peter's - Saint Peter's by James Lees-Milne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He commissioned Fra Angelico to embellish the palace with frescoes (they were destroyed a hundred years later by Paul III) and Filarete to cast the huge central bronze doors to the basilica (it is still in place) in emulation of Ghilberti's doors in the Baptistry in Florence.
		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.
		At the southern extremity of the Cortile del Belvedere, and separated from the Cortile della Pigna by the library block, the battlemented tower and the Appartamenti Borgia recall the contribution of Alexander VI (1492-1503).
	www.stpetersbasilica.org /Docs/JLM/SaintPeters-5.htm (7670 words)

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