Anchor 1 ▼ Square Artist: Bernini Date: 1655-1667 • The two colonnades have 284 columns and 88 pilasters with 88 statues of saints above them • The coat of arms of the benefactor Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667) is found at the end of the colonnades ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Paul Date: 1704-1708 Artist: Pierre-Etienne Monnot • The statue is St. Paul. His symbol is a sword because, as a Roman citizen, he was entitled to death by the sword . • All of the statues in the pillars are of the 12 apostles of Jesus (except St. Paul). These 12 pillars follow Revelation 21:14 which speak of the 12 apostles as the 12 foundations of the new Jerusalem • The dove in the pediment is the heraldic device of the Pamphili. Pope Innocent X (1644-1655), a Pamphili, renovated the nave

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas Artist: Filippino Lippi Date: 1489-1492 • The fresco is St. Thomas Aquinas Presents Cardinal Carafa to Our Lady of the Annunciation. The annunciation is when Mary is told by the angel Gabriel she is to bear Jesus. In the same space, St. Thomas presents Carafa, the patron of the chapel, to Mary • Near Mary are an olive branch and a carafe, words that create a rebus for Oliviero Carafe's name • Behind the apostles on the right, Carafa's naval conquests are indicated by a giraffe and other rare animals ▲ ▶ ◀

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Anchor 1 ▼ Life of St. Paul From left to right: Artist: Roberto Bompiani Date: 1857-1860 • Prophecy of Agabus Artist: Cesare Dias Date: 1857-1860 • Paul and James at Jerusalem Artist: Francesco Grandi Date: 1857-1860 • Riot at the Temple • Paul Speaking to the Rioters • These chronologically ordered scenes from the life of St. Paul were intended by Pope Pius IX to replace the Cavallini works destroyed by the fire ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ St. Andrew Altar Artist: Giovanni Baglione • The painting is of St. Andrew

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of Pius IX Artist: Ludwig Seitz Date: 1890 ca. • The various coat of arms are of dioceses and institutes that contributed to the chapel ▲ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Nave Date: 431-440 • The mosaics date mostly from Pope Sixtus III (432-440) • The mosaics on the left are Old Testament events of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob Artist: Giovanni Battista Ricci; Baldassarre Croce; others Date: 1593 • The 22 paintings are New Testament events mostly of Mary

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Anchor 1 ▼ Portico Date: 1742-1743 • The relief is Gelasius Burns Heretical Books • Each of the four reliefs in the portico are events related to this church ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Nave Traditional date of Sessorian Palace: 200s Original church: 300s Pope Gregory II restoration: 715-731 Pope Adrian I restoration: 772-795 Pope Benedict VII builds monastery: 983 Pope Lucio II Romanesque renovation: 1144-1145 Pope Benedict XIV renovation: 1740-1758 by Domenico Gregorini; Pietro Passalacqua

Anchor 1 ▼ Confession ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Chapel of Pius IX • This is the entrance to the funeral chapel of Pius IX who is buried below • This is the original area of the church that was built by Constantine (306-337) in 330 and rebuilt by Pope Pelagius II (578-590) in 578. Later Pope Honorius III (1216-1227) added the nave area

Anchor 1 ▼ Portico Artist: Paolo and Filippo Date: Early 1200s • The panels recall how St. Lawrence and St. Stephen appeared to a monk, in 1062, who lived in the monastery attached to this basilica

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of Mary Immaculate and Saints Artist: Placido Costanzi • The painting is Mary Immaculate and Saints

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Back Wall • The inscription recalls the work of Pope Paul V (1605-1621) who finished the building St. Peter's in 1614 and his design of the confession area

Anchor 1 Tomb of Gian Lorenzo Bernini • The Latin above reads: "Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who brought honor to art and to the city, here humbly lies" • The coat of arms reads: "The noble Bernini family here awaits the resurrection" • Gian Lorenzo's father Pietro Berini is also buried here. One of Pietro's works is in the baptistry • Gian Lorenzo's son Pierfilippo Bernini was a canon of this church and thus arranged special permission for them to be buried here ▼

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Anchor 1 ▼ Door of Death Artist: Giacomo Manzu Date: 1964 • The panels reference the Death of Pope John XXIII. Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) called the Second Vatican Council but died before its completion on June 3, 1963 ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Main Altar Artist: Francesco Moderati Date: 1717 • The statue is St. Anastasius • St. Anastasius and St. Rasius, the statues on either side of the altar, were Roman martyrs. They are both wearing priestly vestments although little is known of their lives • In 1675 it was determined that of all the bones of the saints that were originally brought to the pagan pantheon to reconsecrate it as a Christian church, only the bones of these saints were identifiable because they were in a unique casket. Pope Clement X (1670-1676) placed them in the main altar and gave these aedicules to honor them