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Vatican Adventure: St. Peters

Vatican Adventure: St. Peters. After seeing the Sistine Chapel, we left the museum and entered St. Peters. Credits. Most pictures by Joe Naumann Some pictures by Lea Barlow from her gift CD (thanks Lea) Maps and animations from the internet. Basilica of Saint Peter.

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Vatican Adventure: St. Peters

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  1. Vatican Adventure: St. Peters After seeing the Sistine Chapel, we left the museum and entered St. Peters.

  2. Credits • Most pictures by Joe Naumann • Some pictures by Lea Barlow from her gift CD (thanks Lea) • Maps and animations from the internet

  3. Basilica of Saint Peter

  4. Side of St. Peters seen when leaving the Sistine Chapel

  5. Main door to St. Peters

  6. Michelangelo’s Pieta

  7. A closer look it the masterpiece

  8. Awesome, Fabulous, Breathtaking

  9. Pope John XXIII – draws a big crowd

  10. Many stop to pray

  11. St. Peter’s Artwork • Most of the artwork in the basilica tend to relate to the Popes • It is easy to lose sight of the supposed spiritual – religious nature of the structure.

  12. Pope Pius XII statue

  13. Pope Innocent XI

  14. St. Peters – a monument to great artists and to the papacy

  15. Papal altar seen from a distance

  16. Main altar in St. Peters – canopy by Bernini

  17. Sanctuary and altar (by Bernini) behind the papal altar

  18. Way to the crypt

  19. Alleged to be tomb of St. Peter

  20. Pope Benedict

  21. Pope Paul VI – one of the least pretentious

  22. Pope Pius XI

  23. John Paul I – dreams of what might have been . . .

  24. View of the “square” upon exiting from St. Peters

  25. The Swiss Guard in 16th century dress by Michelangelo

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