Mediterranean
Journey – 2011
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Only the Pope celebrates Mass at this altar. The roofed covering high overhead, with the two figures inside, is called a baldachino. Built in 1367, it is said to contain the relics – fragments of bone – of St. Peter and of St. Paul.
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Oct. 22, 2011
St. John Lateran – high altar
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