Category: St. Peter’s Basilica Vatican City
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St. Leo the Great with Attila
Meeting of St. Leo the Great with Attila (1653) by Alessandro Algardi. November 10th is St. Leo the Great’s Feast Day, and what better way to celebrate than with this magnificent marble relief? The work depicts St. Leo the Great (left) confronting King Attila the Hun, persuading him to turn back from his invasion of…
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Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle
February 22nd is the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle. In St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, in the Apse (behind the main altar) is Bernini’s Cathedra Petri (1647). This reliquary holds what is traditionally believed to be the chair of St. Peter. Four doctors of the church are holding down the…