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Professor Conant at 12 o'clock in Robinson Hall will lecture on the Churches of St. John Lateran at Rome, of the Nativity at Bethlehem, and of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. This lecture will be illustrated with slides chosen with especial care. The discussion, dealing with the almost naive early Christian monuments, will be of particular interest in comparison with Professor Edgell's, which has to do with a highly sophisticated style of architecture...
...discretion, a share of the realm. Thus was built the Roman Empire of old. That it finally fell by its inclusions was only because it became effete during and not because of the process. Last week a most significant ceremony occurred in Rome, at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran (Roman Catholic). Protestant President Doumergue of France was inducted (by proxy) as Canon.* The ceremony, attended by the whole Cathedral chapter, was a revival, after 100 years, of a distinction once granted the kings of France. The delicate matter had been arranged between Foreign Minister Briand and Monsignor Maglione, Papal...
Archbishop Stephen of Petraca, at Council of Lateran, said of Pope Leo that he had "power above all power, both in heaven and on earth" (Decretals of Gregory III [731-741; Gregory XIII...
...three other basilicas in Rome? St. John Lateran, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Mary Major?specially deputed cardinals will "batter down" other holy portals. The symbolism of the rite is variously interpreted?by some as representing the return of Adam and Eve (i.e., humanity) to Paradise through the intercession of Christ; by others, as having sprung from the fact that the medieval church was sanctuary for fugitives...
...dead of night a hearse rattled its way along the narrow streets of Rome from St. Peter's to the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Beside the hearse walked a few of the Pope's georgeous guards, a few Vatican officials. All Rome slept. The body of Pope Leo XIII was being removed, in accordance with his expressed will, to its final resting place...