{"id":34232,"date":"2016-11-18T13:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34232"},"modified":"2016-11-18T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T17:48:42","slug":"st-peters-basilica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/st-peters-basilica\/","title":{"rendered":"St Peter&#8217;s Basilica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34233 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"st-peters-basilica-rome\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/St-Peters-Basilica-Rome.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In 1626, Rome\u2019s <em><strong>new<\/strong><\/em> St Peter\u2019s Basilica on Vatican Hill was consecrated. It replaced an earlier church on the same site. A magnificent piece of architecture executed on a grand scale, the Basilica remains one of the largest church buildings in the world. This image\u00a0gives a great perspective of the colonnades stretching out &#8211;as if to embrace the world&#8211; thus creating St Peter\u2019s Square. It is holy\u00a0site for Catholics: \u2013at the basilica, St Peter&#8217;s tomb is directly below the high altar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1626, Rome\u2019s new St Peter\u2019s Basilica on Vatican Hill was consecrated. It replaced an earlier church on the same site. A magnificent piece of architecture executed on a grand scale, the Basilica remains one of the largest church buildings in the world. This image\u00a0gives a great perspective of the colonnades stretching out &#8211;as if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/11\/st-peters-basilica\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St Peter&#8217;s Basilica<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34234,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34232\/revisions\/34234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}