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Aug 17
fuckyeahvalhalla: St. Peter’s Basilica  is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City and it has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. One author wrote: “Only gradually does it dawn upon us – as we watch people draw near to this or that monument, strangely they appear to shrink; they are, of course, dwarfed by the scale of everything in the building. This in its turn overwhelms us.” Around the inside of the dome is written, in letters 2 metres (6.6 ft) high: TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM (“…you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. … I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…” Vulgate, Matthew 16:18–19 The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described St Peter’s as “an ornament of the earth ….the sublime of the beautiful.” Image by Giovanni Paolo Pannini

fuckyeahvalhalla:

St. Peter’s Basilica  is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City and it has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. One author wrote: “Only gradually does it dawn upon us – as we watch people draw near to this or that monument, strangely they appear to shrink; they are, of course, dwarfed by the scale of everything in the building. This in its turn overwhelms us.”

Around the inside of the dome is written, in letters 2 metres (6.6 ft) high:

TV ES PETRVS ET SVPER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM. TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI CAELORVM

(“…you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church. … I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…” Vulgate, Matthew 16:18–19

The American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described St Peter’s as “an ornament of the earth ….the sublime of the beautiful.”

Image by Giovanni Paolo Pannini

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