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| The Lateran Museum (Museo Lateranense) was a museum founded by the Popes and housed in the Lateran Palace, adjacent to the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy. It ceased to exist in 1970. Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) established the Museo Profano Lateranense (or Museo Gregoriano Profano) in 1844 which was made up of statues, bas-relief sculptures and mosaics of the Roman era. It was... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Lateran Museum
The Lateran Museum (Museo Lateranense) was a museum founded by the Popes and housed in the Lateran Palace, adjacent to the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome, Italy. ... "Christian Museum of Lateran". -
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List of museums in Italy
This is a list of museums in Italy by city. ... Pontifical Museum of Christian Antiquities -
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List of museums in Rome
Rome contains vast quantities of priceless art, sculpture and treasures, which is mainly stored in Rome's many museums. ... Pontifical Museum of Christian Antiquities -
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Francesco Bianchini
Francesco Bianchini (December 13, 1662 – March 2, 1729) was an Italian philosopher and scientist. ... Clement XI sent him on a mission to Paris in 1712, and employed him to form a museum of Christian antiquities. -
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British Museum
Together they illustrate every aspect of the cultures of the Nile Valley (including Nubia), from the Predynastic Neolithic period (c. 10,000 BC) through to the Coptic (Christian) times (12th century AD), a time-span over 11,000 years. ... ↑ British Museum - Greek and Roman Antiquities -
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Xavier Barbier de Montault
He searched the archives of the diocese, studied its inscriptions and monuments, and founded a diocesan museum, a project in which de Caumont took a lively interest. Another sojourn of fourteen years in Rome (1861-75) enabled him to augment his knowledge of liturgy and Christian antiquities. -
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Ceremonial use of lights
At most pontifical functions, moreover, the bishop as the representative of Christ is preceded by an acolyte with a burning candle (bugia) on a candlestick. ... W. Smith and S. Cheetham, Dictionary of Christian Antiquities (London. 1875-1880), i. 939 seq. -
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Clan Brodie
A rare pontifical document was discovered in Brodie Castle in 1972 and is now housed in the British Museum. ... The Celtic magazine; a monthly periodical devoted to the literature, history, antiquities, folk lore, traditions, and the social and material interests of the Celt at home and abroad. -
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Aquileia
Excavations have revealed one street and the north-west angle of the town walls, while the National Archaeological Museum (one of the most important museums of Ancient Rome in the world) contains over 2,000 inscriptions, statues and other antiquities, as well as glasses of local production and a numismatics collection. ... In the Monastero fraction is a 5th century Christian basilica, later a Benedictine monastery, which today houses the Paleo-Christian Museum. -
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Athanasius Kircher
He studied malaria and the plague, amassing a collection of antiquities, which he exhibited along with devices of his own creation in the Museum Kircherianum. ... Christian Hebraists
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