500 YEARS OF ST. PETER'S
DVD. Coded for Region 1 (US and possessions, and Canada) only. 60 min.
April 18, 1506 saw the beginning of the end for the almost 1,200 year-old St. Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill in Rome. For on this day, under the supervision of the chief architect Donato Bramante, the foundation stone was laid for a new St. Peter's. In a sequence of bitter power struggles, shattering defeats and glorious triumphs Bramante, Sangallo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Maderno and Bernini created this world-famous center of the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation might well have taken quite a different course without this building. Like a huge precious shell the dome envelops the humble tomb, buried deep within its depths, of the Apostle Peter, designated by Jesus to bear responsibility for the Christian faith.
1506-2006 500 Years of the New St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
"Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church."
April 18, 1506 saw the beginning of the end for the almost 1,200 year-old St. Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill in Rome. For on this day, under the supervision of the chief architect Donato Bramante, the foundation stone was laid for a new St. Peter's. In a sequence of bitter power struggles, shattering defeats and glorious triumphs Bramante, Sangallo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Maderno and Bernini created this world-famous center of the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation might well have taken quite a different course without this building. Like a huge precious shell the dome envelops the humble tomb, buried deep within its depths, of the Apostle Peter, designated by Jesus to bear responsibility for the Christian faith.
1506-2006 500 Years of the New St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
"Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church."
