Building History - The Vatican
William W. Lace
Hardcover
(Lucent Books, Dec. 11, 2003)
Sometime around 64 A.D. Simon Peter, a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, was crucified and given a hurried burial on a hillside outside Rome. Above his tomb, two thousand years later, stands one of the world's mightiest churches and most sacred places, home of the pope and spiritual home of the world's one billion Roman Catholics.
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