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    The Scala Sancta (English: Holy Stairs, Italian: Scala Santa) are a set of 28 white marble steps located in an edifice on extraterritorial property of...
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    The Sancta Sanctorum (Italian: Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum) is a Roman Catholic chapel entered via the Scala Sancta (Holy Staircase)...
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  • Look up sancta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sancta may refer to: Scala Sancta, a set of 28 white marble steps that are Roman Catholic relics located...
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    former stone is now used as the main altar of the church. The church's Scala Sancta is to be found in lateral chapel, renovated in 2000. Tomb of Anton Raphael...
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    constituent parts of the Lateran complex are the building of the Scala Sancta with the Sancta Sanctorum and the Triclinium of Pope Leo III. Another basilica...
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    represented only by his commanding hand, sentencing Jesus to death. The Scala sancta, supposedly the staircase from Pilate's praetorium, now located in Rome...
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    motif of illuminated manuscripts known as "the fountain of life". The Scala Sancta, or Holy Stairs, are white marble steps encased in wooden ones. They...
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  • Jesus by the soldiers prior to his crucifixion.[citation needed] The Scala Sancta, the stairs from Pontius Pilate's praetorium, ascended by Jesus during...
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    pope's private chapel, in a room now known as the Sancta Sanctorum at the top of the Scala Sancta in a surviving part of the old Lateran Palace in Rome...
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    and the Pontifical Beda College). Lateran Palace, Lateran University, the Scala Santa and adjoining buildings, Palace of St Callixtus (Palazzo San Callisto)...
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    The church includes a precise from 1653 of the so-called Holy Stairs (Scala Sancta) that Christ ascended to the Pretorium of Pilate. The Palffy Palace until...
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    Fountain of 99 Spouts, Gabriele D'Annunzio's house in Pescara, Campli's Scala Sancta and its church, the church of Santissima Annunziata in Sulmona, the cathedrals...
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    village once possession of the Farnese Family. Its St Paul Church holds a Scala Sancta. Castelli is a village 25 miles away (40 km) from Teramo. It is known...
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    the first station, a stone staircase of 28 steps is reminiscent of the Scala Sancta in Rome, with some pilgrims also climbing it and on their knees. Across...
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    Lateran Palace Lateran University Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum Adjoining buildings Palace of Saint Callixtus Gianicolo Hill area Pontifical Urban University...
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    Holy See (redirect from Sancta Sedes)
    The Holy See (Latin: Sancta Sedes, lit. 'Holy Chair', Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈsaŋkta ˈsedes]; Italian: Santa Sede [ˈsanta ˈsɛːde]), also called the See...
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    ad Sancta Sanctorum, Pontifical Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs (Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum, Pontificio Santuario della Scala Santa)...
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    Lateran Palace Lateran University Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum Adjoining buildings Palace of Saint Callixtus Gianicolo Hill area Pontifical Urban University...
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    the popes. Sixtus V (r. 1585–1590) granted him the provostry of the Scala Sancta. In 1592, Clement VIII named him secretary of the College of Cardinals...
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    Hagia Sophia (redirect from Sancta Sophia)
    Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i...
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    Mainard subscribes in January 1063 as episcopus Silvae Candidae. Mainard de Sancta Rufina was present at the Roman synod of Pope Alexander II on 6 May 1065...
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    of the chapels houses a depiction of Calvary with Christ reached by a Scala Sancta ascended on your knees. Adjacent to the church is a convent, now housing...
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    number of votive offerings at the church, including animal figurines. A Scala Sancta shrine at the site is decorated with frescoes by Tomaž Fantoni dating...
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    San Giovanni in Laterano, Nebbia and Guerra painted in the Scala Sancta and the papal Sancta Sanctorum, the chapel of St. Lawrence. This project employed...
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    the last station there stands the architecturally unique Chapel of the Scala Sancta (Slovene: svete stopnice), the floor of which is made of 28 stepped platforms...
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  • of Sixtus V, Prospero was one of the many artists that decorated the Scala Sancta walls and ceilings with frescoes. He worked on the depiction of Moses...
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    Lateran Palace Lateran University Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum Adjoining buildings Palace of Saint Callixtus Gianicolo Hill area Pontifical Urban University...
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    Lateran Palace Lateran University Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum Adjoining buildings Palace of Saint Callixtus Gianicolo Hill area Pontifical Urban University...
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    Lateran Palace Lateran University Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum Adjoining buildings Palace of Saint Callixtus Gianicolo Hill area Pontifical Urban University...
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    painters by 1581. He was active in the fresco decoration (1590-1593) of the Scala Sancta in Santa Maria Maggiore, in the decoration (1597-1613) of San Marcello...
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