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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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for the same purpose, as aburial-place for the Imperial family as soon as the other mauso-leum proved too small to receive any more of the sumptuoussarcophagi. Pope Symmachus, of whom we have already heard,made it into a church of the above Apostle, doubtless wishing tohonour St. Peter by consecrating a church to his brother Andrewso near his tomb. He also provided the rotunda with a fineportico on the outside.5 Symmachus worked more than any otherPope between the fourth and the seventh century to complete 1 Dialog., 4, c. 13 : sese apud beati Petri ecclesiam monasterio tradidit &c. 2 Episcopia in eodem loco, dextra levaque fecit. Item sub gradus in atrio aliumcantharum foris in campoposuit et usum necessitatis humanae (waynaiov) fecit &c. Seefollowing note. 3 I.iber pont., I, 262, Symmachus, No. 79 ff. 4 Cp. Stimmen aus Maria Laach (1888), p. 273. The high-altar was at D, i.e. abovethe Confession. 5 Liber pont., 1, 261, Symmachus, No. 79; DUCHESNE, note 16. c ■^ ■ , r u.S
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111. 64.—Plan of Old St. Peters (A), showing its relation TO THE PRESENT BUILDING (B), AND OLD NERONIAN Circus (C). no.i82) THE VATICAN REGION 275 the vast structures which went to form St. Peters. This is ex-plained by the circumstances of his pontificate. Owing to theschism occasioned by the Antipope Lawrence, he was not able totake possession of the Lateran. In consequence he took up hisresidence near St. Peters, and did all he could to beautify theVatican buildings. 182. Lying round the two rotundas just described we mightthen have seen the vast ruins of the Neronian Circus, begun byCaligula (CC). Where its centre had been there stood the far-famed obelisk (O). This is the same monolith that has stood on,the modern Piazza di San Pietro since the time of Sixtus V. Theslender column, nearly 84 feet in height, had been brought fromEgypt by the Emperor Caligula, and dedicated with religiousrites to his two Imperial predecessors, divus Augustus and divusTiberius) At the time of our i

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