![]() ![]() I’ve seen so many powerful moments on these steps. After 16 months of restoration, the Scala Santa is open once again. ISBN 9783406343674.Update: The Scala Santa is fully restored and open to the public.įinally. Bild und Kult: eine Geschichte des Bildes vor dem Zeitalter der Kunst. Salvatore di Sancta Sanctorum, Monaldi, 1863 ^ Paolo Mencacci, Alcune memorie sull'immagine Acheropita del SS.^ Salomoni Generoso, Memorie sacre della cappella di Sancta Sanctorum e della scala del palazzo di Pilato detta volgarmente la Scala Santa, Roma 1775.^ Il tesoro della cappella Sancta Sanctorum, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1941.Mabillon, Museum Italicum seu collectio veterum scriptorum ex bibliothecis italicis eruti, 2 vols, Paris, 1724. ^ Giovanni Diacono, De Ecclesia lateranensi, ed.^ Leonardo Mazzucconi, Memorie storiche della Scala Santa e dell'insigne santuario di Sancta Sanctorum, Ferretti, 1840.^ a b "New Display of Sacred Objects from the Sancta Sanctorum", Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, September 1, 2015.Salvatore detta Acheropita, che ivi conservasi, by Giovanni Marangoni, Stamperia San Michele, Rome, 1747. ^ Istoria dell'antichissimo oratorio, o Capella di San Lorenzo nel patriarchio lateranense, comunemente appellato Sancta Sanctorum, e della celebre immagine del SS.^ a b "The Sancta Sanctorum", Scala Santa di Roma.Other acheiropoieta include the image of Christ’s face that miraculously imprinted itself on the sudarium of Veronica. The chapel also houses the Uronica or Acheiropoieta Lateranese icon of Christ Pantocrator, known as the Veronica, that was supposedly begun by Saint Luke and finished as an acheiropoieta (which translates to "images not made by human hands") since finished by an angel. This style of intarsiated pavement was created in the 12th century by the Cosmati family of stonecutters and widely copied throughout Rome in the 13th century. Over the course of time, other relics were added, including the cloisonné enameled cross commissioned by Paschal I (†824). The reliquary box itself is taken to represent the Ark of the Covenant in Solomon's Temple. It supposedly houses the bones of at least 13 saints (whereof the chapel derives the name "holy of holies"). The main altar contains a cypress wood reliquary box, placed under the altar by Pope Leo III (†816). ![]() ![]() ![]() rectangular apse measuring 2.73 by 5.85 metres. The chapel is relatively small and rectangular, with a nave seven meters long and an apse nearly 6 meters wide. Sancta sanctorum, cosmateque pavement from 1278 It later became part of the Palace and Holy Steps complex commissioned by Sixtus V in 1586. Later Pope Alexander III is mentioned as presiding here over the ceremony of the washing of the feet. Gregory IV (†844) had a private apartment built near the chapel to allow him to pray there. It formed part of the Lateran Palace, headquarters of the public offices of the papal court throughout the Middle Ages. The antiquarian Marangoni along with Onofrio Panvino quote documents that cite the acquisition in 583 by Pope Gregory of relics from Constantinople, including an arm of St Lawrence, that were housed in the church of St Lawrence in Lateran palace. The first mention of the chapel is found in the Liber Pontificalis, during the tenure of Pope Stephen III (†772). It is located at the top of the Scala Sancta, ("Holy Stairs"). It was originally dedicated to Saint Lawrence, and served as the pope's private oratory until the Renaissance. "the most holy things") and to the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem, traditionally called in Latin both sanctum sanctorum (the singular form) or sancta sanctorum. The spelling is Sancta, the neuter plural form of the Latin adjective "holy": this is a reference to the multiple relics preserved there (i.e. The chapel acquired the Sancta Sanctorum sometime in the ninth century. The chapel is the only building from the old Lateran Palace that was not destroyed during its reconstruction. It was the original private chapel of the papacy before it moved to Avignon, and later to the Vatican Palace. 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) of the Lateran Palace in Rome. Main altar of the Sancta Sanctorum, enshrining the Uronica. ![]()
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