St Peter’s Square and Basilica, in the Vatican State, spiritual centre of Catholicism. The Vatican emerged as an. autonomous State, independent of Italy, in 1929, as a result of the conclusion of the Lateran Pact, but its history goes back to the Emperor Constantine, who, in the fourth century, built the first great Christian basilica on the spot where St Peter met his death and where many Christians had been persecuted. From that time Vatican events have been bound up with the papacy. The history of the present basilica began in the sixteenth century.
Lucinda Vardey
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Press, 26 July 1989, Page 17
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96St Peter’s Square and Basilica, in the Vatican State, spiritual centre of Catholicism. The Vatican emerged as an. autonomous State, independent of Italy, in 1929, as a result of the conclusion of the Lateran Pact, but its history goes back to the Emperor Constantine, who, in the fourth century, built the first great Christian basilica on the spot where St Peter met his death and where many Christians had been persecuted. From that time Vatican events have been bound up with the papacy. The history of the present basilica began in the sixteenth century. Lucinda Vardey Press, 26 July 1989, Page 17
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