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	St. John Lateran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		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 Faustæ.
		It was dedicated to the Saviour, "Basilica Salvatoris", the rededication to St. John being of later date, and due to a Benedictine monastery of St.
		John the Evangelist which adjoined the basilica and where members were charged at one period with the duty of maintaining the services in the church.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/s/st/st__john_lateran.html (1079 words)

	Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Every pope since Miltiades occupied the Lateran Palace until the reign of the French Pope Clement V, who in 1309 decided to transfer the official seat of the Church to Avignon, a papal fief that was an enclave within France.
		During the Avignon papacy, the Lateran Palace and the basilica began to decline.
		Some few remains of the original buildings may still be traced in the city walls outside the Gate of St. John, and a large wall decorated with paintings was uncovered in the 18th century within the basilica itself, behind the Lancellotti Chapel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._John_Lateran (1569 words)

	St. Louis Review Online
		The first St. Peter’s was built by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century over the tomb of St. Peter; the current version was begun in the early 16th century and completed in the mid-17th.
		John O’Brien, a seminarian from St. Louis studying in Rome, was the lector.
		John Lateran (Lateran from the name of the aristocratic family which controlled the area on which it was built) remains the cathedral for the Rome Diocese.
	www.stlouisreview.com /article.php?id=7466 (1256 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint John Lateran
		It was dedicated to the Saviour, "Basilica Salvatoris", the dedication to St. John being of later date, and due to a Benedictine monastery of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist which adjoined the basilica and where members were charged at one period with the duty of maintaining the services in the church.
		Those in the oratory of St. John the Evangelist are of the fifth century, and are of the conventional style of that period, consisting of flowers and birds on a gold ground, also a Lamb with a cruciform nimbus on the vault.
		The fall of the palace from this position of glory was the result of the departure of the popes from Rome during the Avignon period.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09014b.htm (2866 words)

	Dedication of St. John Lateran - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		John Lateran is the pope’s church, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome where the Bishop of Rome presides.
		One of Rome’s most imposing churches, the Lateran’s towering facade is crowned with 15 colossal statues of Christ, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist and 12 doctors of the Church.
		John Lateran is, in a sense, the parish church of all Catholics, for it is the pope's parish, the cathedral church of the Bishop of Rome.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay?id=1194 (395 words)

	Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Lateran is the Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome who is also the leader of the Roman Catholic Church and direct successor to Peter, the rock on this earth chosen by Christ.
		In this way, therefore, St. John Lateran is the “mother of all churches” because of the “spiritual maternity” that goes with the Primacy of Peter, succeeded by John Paul II.
		In John, it is at the very beginning, it is the inauguration of a new era, the kick off for Christ’s public ministry.
	www22.brinkster.com /stdominic/32nd.htm (751 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Because of decay and destruction, the Lateran was not fit to live in and eventually the present day Vatican became the home of the Popes and center of the Catholic world.
		On the front façade are carved the words,"Omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput."(The Mother and Head of all churches of the City and of the World) It is the Cathedral Church of Rome and of the Pope as the Bishop of Rome and the Mother Church of all Catholic believer's.
		The celebration of the dedication of St. John Lateran goes back to the 4th century and is still continued today.
	www.christdesert.org /public_graphics/martyrology/names/d/dedication_of_john_lateran_archcathedral.txt (461 words)

	News-Star OnlineNew public access for Lateran Palace 01/17/04
		Along with its adjoining buildings, St. John was the official residence of the popes until the papacy moved to Avignon at the start of the 1300s.
		Lateran Palace has had many other lives over the years: a hospital, a home for destitute, the Vatican's missionary museum, its ethnological museum, and now, it's historic museum.
		But the real value of the museum is in the history of its location at St. John Lateran, the oldest basilica in Rome whose Latin inscription describes it as the "mother and head" of all the churches of the world.
	www.news-star.com /stories/011704/rel_9.shtml (776 words)

	Basilica S.Giovanni in Laterano (St.John Lateran) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 314 Pope Sylvester I took up residence in the Lateran; the palace became the official papal residence from the 5C until the papacy departed to Avignon in France.
		The accused was the corpse of Pope Formosus, dressed in his papal vestments; his enemies had not forgiven him for having bestowed the Emperor’s crown on the "Barbarian" Arnoul, last of the Carolingians.
		In 1512 Julius II opened the fifth Lateran Council by asserting the supremacy of the Church of Rome.
	www.mpinternationalhouse.com /uk/monumenti.phtml?id=36 (428 words)

	The Feast of the Dedication of St. John Lateran
		John Lateran is the Pope's cathedral or principal church of the Bishop of Rome.
		As the Cathedral of the Pope, the Supreme Pontiff and Pastor of the Universal Church, the Lateran Church or Basilica is the head and mother of all churches.
		John Bosco (Don Bosco) came upon a group of his Salesians and their charges celebrating the election of the papacy of Leo XIII.
	www.st.ignatius.net /11-09-03.html (1000 words)

	Tour 4
		The route starts from the area of St. John Lateran, associated for a millenium with the history of the medieval Church.
		The 18th century facade is adorned with statues of Christ, St. John and the Doctors of the Church, and has five portals.
		The chapel of St. Sylvester with frescoes depicting the Saint's miracles including the conversion of Constantine healed from the plague; during the controversies of the Middle Ages they were considered as evidence of the supremacy of the Pope over the Emperor.
	www.roma2000.it /zitine4.html (1347 words)

	St John Lateran L12
		John XXIII decided to restitute the palace its pastoral functions fixing here the seat of Vicariate and offices of the diocese of Rome.
		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.
		Partly ruined by the Vandals, it was restored by St Leo the Great in the 5th century and Hadrian I in the 8th century and, after the earthquake of 896, by Sergius III in the 10th century.
	www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/L12.htm (1433 words)

	Italy - Wednesday, November 8, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Lateran is outside the Vatican grounds but also belongs to the territory of the Vatican and is governed by the Vatican as is St. Paul's Outside the Walls.
		After St. John Lateran, we viewed Pilot's Stairs in a building across the street from the Basilica.
		The 4th and 5th pictures are of structures across the street form the Basilica of St. Maria Maggiore.
	msintx.com /msintx-html/European-Trips/italy-0011-htm/Italy-001108-Wednesday.htm (1201 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Churches of Rome: Christianity's First Cathedral
		Henceforth, the Lateran palace, known as the Patriarchate, was the Pope's official residence until the fifteenth century.
		As an approach to the chapel, Sixtus moved from the Lateran Palace the Scala Santa, the staircase which Jesus is believed to have ascended to Pontius Pilate's palace in Jerusalem, and according to tradition, was brought to Rome by St. Helena herself.
		John Lateran contains artistic treasures from every historic period, a tribute to the important role the basilica has played in the history of Rome and of the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5811 (1959 words)

	Relic Whirlwind & Night Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		John Lateran and Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Holy Cross in Jerusalem) are two of the other major pilgrimage churches in Rome apart from St. Peter's.
		The early Papacy had been based at St. John Lateran until Medieval French Popes moved the Papacy to Avignon, beginning the period known as the "Babylonian Captivity." St. Peter's was not completed until 1625.
		The Lateran church is beautiful and shares many characteristics of St. Peter's, but on a smaller scale, such as the entryway and sculpted bronze doors.
	www.selfexclamatory.com /april23.html (1287 words)

	Rosary for the Culture of Life ... I Pledge ...
		In the atrium of St. Peter's Basilica the opening ceremony was attended by religious and civil authorities, among them Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president of the Italian Republic, accompanied by his wife.
		John Paul II recalled that the Lateran Basilica is the "mother and head of all Roman Churches throughout the world, as well as being the cathedral of the Bishop of Rome.
		John Paul II stated that "in the western world, Christmas is considered as a family celebration.
	frpat.com /jubilee.htm (2820 words)

	Lateran on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Lateran basilica is the cathedral of Rome, the pope's church, the first-ranking church of the Roman Catholic Church.
		The basilica, built perhaps before 311, was restored in the 5th and the 10th cent., rebuilt in the 14th and the 15th cent., and altered again in the 16th, the 17th, and the 18th cent.; the main facade was added in 1733-36.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lateran.asp (616 words)

	Janson Media: Video & DVD: The Raphael Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A little further on is St. Peter and episodes from the history of the Church: the Eucharist miracle of Bolsena, Saint Leo halting Attila and the Huns.
		If the Vatican has become the center of Christianity, for it was there that St. Peter was martyred and that the Pope now resides, it should be recalled that the Lateran palace was the official residence and dwelling of the Popes for around ten centuries.
		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.
	www.janson.com /videos/vatican/vol5.html (948 words)

	November 9 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And when he came back to the Lateran, in the 1380’s or so, it was in total disrepair and he couldn’t live there.
		John Lateran is important because it stands for something.
		Elsewhere, St. Peter says the apostles are the foundation, and Jesus is the capstone.
	www.rc.net /santafe/ihm/homilies/november_9_2003.htm (2117 words)

	Introduction
		The words of St. Stephen to the High Priest just before he was stoned to death suddenly came to my mind.
		John Lateran, we also want to make a simple positive statement about the temple that
		Yes, even some of the misconceptions and mis-emphases and questionable practices of the past are there speaking to us in the statues and communion rail and confessionals and in the overall Byzantine busyness of the place.
	my.execpc.com /~alexis/Lateran.htm (1827 words)

	The Basilica of St. John in Lateran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Lateran area, in the midst of wild traffic, takes its name from the family of the Laterans who had numerous properties in the area during the Imperial age.
		The choice of the Lateran area as the site of the first “official” Basilica was a practical one- the barracks belonged to the State -and it was also symbolic.
		Joining in a straight line the Lateran Basilica with that of the Vatican, it can be noted that the line passes by the Coliseum and from here another straight perpendicular line joins the Basilicas of St. Paul outside the Walls to St. Laurence.
	www.underome.com /eng/sub/50.php (519 words)

	Irish College reception follows Bishops' John Lateran Mass
		Australia’s Bishops have celebrated Mass at St John Lateran Church, which is regarded as the oldest and first among the four great patriarchal basilicas of Rome.
		The Basilica of St John Lateran was an example of the need to look beyond the surface, he said.
		"Although this Basilica of St John Lateran is not the most attractive of the four Roman Basilicas, it has a history which goes back to the 4th Century AD and from that time on, it has been a place of great significance in the life of the Church," he said.
	www.cathnews.com /news/403/149.html (546 words)

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		It is part of the Vatican complex, which includes St. Peter's Square, the Vatican museums and the home of the pope.
		Popes lived in the Lateran Palace for a thousand years until they moved to Avignon, and then to the Vatican upon their return to Rome in 1377.
		Paul's Basilica, the largest in Rome after St. Peter's, was built by Constantine in 314 and enlarged by Valentinian II and Theodosius.
	www.dunnconnect.com /articles/2004/01/06/news/news07.txt (1268 words)

	November 9, 2003 Feast of Consecration of St. John Lateran Jn 2/13-22
		November 9, 2003 Feast of Consecration of St. John Lateran Jn 2/13-22
		John Lateran’s is the Cathedral church of all the world, the Pope’s home church.
		The Cardinals (then really the parish priests of Rome) would choose one of themselves to be the next bishop and would bring him out on the balcony to get the seal of approval (or disapproval) from the lay people of Rome.
	www.agreeley.com /hom03/nov09.htm (277 words)

	Dedication of Church of St. John Lateran
		It stood upon the spot, and was built in part with the materials of the palace of Lateran, which gave name to that part of the hill, and which had been the house of Plautius Lateranus, a rich Roman senator, whom Nero put to death as an accomplice in Piso's conspiracy.
		The founder built a chapel within the inclosed area of this church and dependent upon it, dedicated in honour of St. John Baptist, with a second altar dedicated in honour of St. John Evangelist.
		The Lateran church is styled the head, the mother, and the mistress of all churches, as an inscription on its walls imports.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/DEDOFLAT.htm (1214 words)

	Catholic World News : To loud applause, beatification inquiry opens for John Paul II
		Vatican, Jun. 29 (CWNews.com) - In a ceremony frequently interrupted by applause from the congregation, the cause for the beatification of Pope John Paul II (bio - news) was formally opened on June 28 at the basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.
		Smiling, Cardinal Ruini remarked that the loud shouts from the congregation were both strange and eloquent, testifying to the great popular confidence in the sanctity of the beloved Pontiff.
		The congregation in St. John Lateran included a large number of Poles, and Polish flags were in evidence both inside and outside the basilica.
	www.catholicworldnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=38109 (582 words)

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