Christianity's First Cathedral
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Description: A history and tour of the St. John Lateran - the earliest Christian basilica and the home of the Popes.
Library : Churches of Rome: Christianity's First Cathedral - Catholic Culture Churches of Rome: Christianity's First Cathedral Christendom's earliest basilica and home of the Popes for a thousand years was St. John Lateran on the Caelian Hill. Ordered by Rome's first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great, it became the Popes' own cathedral and official residence for the first millennium of Christian history. Today, standing before the basilica's ponderous eighteenth-century facade, assailed by ear-splitting Roman traffic snarls on every side, we can hardly imagine this as the cradle of our religious heritage. A visitor should glance upwards. Towering against the (usually) cobalt-blue Roman sky, a 7-meter high statue of Christ, flanked by saints and doctors of the Church, triumphantly displays the Cross of Redemption. It was to Jesus the Savior that Constantine dedicated the original church, confirming Christ's superiority over the Capital's pagan gods and assuring the worldwide expansion of the Christian religion.
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