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The
principal destination of the PILGRIMAGE
JUBILEAN IN ROME are the four basiliche patriarcali:
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SANPIETRO IN VATICANO
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SAN PAOLO FUORI LE MURA
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SANTI SALVATORE E GIOVANNI BATTISTA ED
EVANGELISTA IN LATERANO
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SANTI SALVATORE E GIOVANNI BATTISTA ED
EVANGELISTA IN LATERANO
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Even if
the square and the colonnade of San Pietro will be the prechosen place
of the grands events of the 2000, many manifestation will be held in
San Giovanni, first Basilica of Rome, and in San Paolo, the biggest
basilica of Christianity before the construction of San Pietro
basilica, built in the place in the evangelist had been buried.
The celebrations dedicated to the cult of the virgin and the Birth will
be carried out in Santa Maria Maggiore, raised up after il counsel of
Efeso in 431 that ratified the divine mothern hood of the Madonna.
But the
pilgrames to Rome cannot be limited to, the four basislicas and their
holy doors: in the historic downtown the churches in whitch the
faithful met to pray before initiating the visit and the national
churches, referral points for every foreign community. Have been
singled out other places of devotion will be the catacombs (San Callisto, San
Sebastiano, Domitilla, Priscilla, Santa Agnese e Santi Pietro e
Marcellino), the coliseum and the Santuario del Divino amore.
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