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Icon of Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran

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The story of Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran

About 6 min

The Pope’s real cathedral is not St. Peter’s; it is a 1,700-year-old church across town called the Lateran, and the whole Church keeps its birthday.

For almost three hundred years, Christians in Rome had no church at all. They met in houses and prayed in the catacombs, and being caught could mean death. Then, in the early 300s, the emperor Constantine ended the persecutions. He gave the Bishop of Rome a palace that had belonged to a noble family called the Laterani, and beside it a great hall was built for the worship of God. In 324 it was dedicated to Christ the Savior. Later it was placed under the care of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist as well, which is why it is called St. John Lateran.

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