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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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