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Identifier: handbookofromeca00john (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Rome and the Campagna
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: John Murray (Firm)
Subjects: Rome (Italy) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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atrium ofthe early Church) is the Chapel of St. Sylvester, erected byInnocent IV. (1246), with some paint-ings (1248), representing scenes inthe life of Constantine and Sylves-ter, and (on the end wall) ourSaviour with the Virgin, St. Johnthe Baptist, and the Apostles. 1 (tothe 1.) Constantine, who had beenattacked by leprosy, and was advisedto bathe in childrens blood, restoresto their mothers the infants collectedfor that purpose. 2 He sees a visionof SS. Peter and Paul, approving thedeed. 3 He sends for Sylvester. 4Sylvester looks out of his cell at themessengers. 5 He shows effigies ofSS. Peter and Paul to Constantine,who recognises the likeness. 6 Bap-tism of Constantine. 7 His donationof Rome to Sylvester. 8 Constantineleading Sylvesters horse into Rome.On the 1. wall. Discovery of the trueCross. The Chapel belongs to thescarpellini (stonecutters), five of whosecraft suffered martyrdom for refusingto make images of pagan gods. Th?pavement is extremely beautiful. Pla,a6,litU,i2.i
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r.S.Weller TrtK City. Boufe 11.—vS. Clementt 109 Nave.—The oiig;inal Chnroli ofHonorius I. was much larger than thatof Paschal If. Its colonnades, stillleft standing, extended as far as thewalls which divide the inner from theouter court. The present nave haseight columns of granite, surmountedby a womens gallery of smaller pillars,with a marble screen behind which itsoccupants were concealed. Thesecolumns were subsequently added toform aisles vrithin the nave, whichwas originally of the same width asthe Chancel. At the end of the rt. aisle is thetomb of Mons. dAquino(l 679), famousfor his library, now dispersed. Fur-ther on is half of an inscription byPope Damasus, in honour of SS. Protusand Hyacinth, from the Catacombs ofS. Hermes, but discovered on thepavement of this Church. The apsehas a modern episcopal chair, andfrescoes of martyred saints by Gio-vanni da S. Giovanni (l(JoO). Finepavement full of fragments from Cuta-combs, and handsome tlat uncolouredwooden ceiling. Ou the

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