The Basilica of Santa Pudentiana is the eldest Roman Catholic basilica built in the fourth century in Rome. The original shrine building dates back from the second century and is dedicated to Saint Pu
Frontal main entrance below the street level
Christ enthroned among the Apostles, apse mosaic (enhanced image), a Paleochristian mosaic, circa 420
Ancient Roman mosaic depicting the Madonna and Child flanked by the sisters Pudenziana and Praxedes. The Chapel of Saint Zeno at the Basilica of Saint Praxedes
The sisters Praxedes and Pudentiana, by Antiveduto Grammatica (1571—1626)
The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran, informally the Lateran Palace, is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in Rome.
Santa Pudenziana
…residence of the Pope during the time of Emperor Marcus Aurelius until 313, when the Emperor Constantine the Great legalized Christianity and offered the Lateran Palace as a church. The historicity of the site is purported to be an adjective used to describe the previous house of the Roman senator Quintus Cornelius…
Saint John in Lateran square with the Lateran Palace (left) and the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (right) and the Obelisk of the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmosis III in front
Copy of the Byzantine mosaics that used to be on the apse of the Leonian Triclinium, one of the main halls of the ancient Lateran palace
The remaining end wall of the Leonian Triclinium (right) shares a building with the Santa Scala (entrance at left), now across the square from the main Renaissance palace
Base of obelisk with citation of Emperor Constantine I