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Title: Famed cathedral to be state museum.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-31136 FAMED CATHEDRAL TO BE STATE MUSEUM CARTHAGE, Tunisia -- Two views of the famed Cathedral at Carthage which has been turned over to the Tunisian government for use as a state museum. The last Mass at the 68-year-old cathedral was celebrated in early June. Attending were 21 seminarians from the White Fathers’ seminary at Carthage; the seminary can be seen behind the cathedral in the picture below. Under an agreement between the Vatican and Tunisia’s government many church properties will be turned over to the state because of “reduced need.” Independence of Tunisia from France was followed by a major exodus of Europeans, with French, Spaniards and Italians returning to their homelands. Consequently, the country’s Catholic population of more than 300,000 dropped to some 40,000 within a short time. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PF-WN-6B-64-W)
Creator Name(s): Paulist Fathers. (publisher), White Fathers. (publisher)
Date Created: 1964, June 1964, June 1964
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Tunisia., Acropolium (Qarṭājannah, Tunisia), White Fathers., Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Treaties.
Topical Subject(s): Church buildings--Tunisia--Qarṭājannah., Catholic theological seminaries--Tunisia--Qarṭājannah., Autonomy--Religious aspects--Christianity., Colonies--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Geographic subjects: Tunisia, Qarṭājannah., Tunisia, Qarṭājannah., Qarṭājannah (Tunisia), Qarṭājannah (Tunisia), Tunisia
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, Box 104, image no. C-31136; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-31136a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:350134

Title: Rome's great basilicas.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: C-45710 ROME’S GREAT BASILICAS -- HOLY YEAR SHRINES (First of a Series) ROME -- There are three other major basilicas in the Eternal City -- St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul’s-Outside-the-Walls -- but the first stop for most of those making the pilgrimage to Rome during the upcoming Holy Yar will be St. Peter’s Basilia in the Vatican. St. Peter’s can only be described in superlatives. It is the largest church in the Christian world, and has perhaps the most commanding dome of any building. It is able to accommodate 50,000 people and it’s architects included some of the greatest artists the world has ever produced. The present structure was begun in 1506 under Bramante to replace a basilica erected by the Emperor Constantine on the supposed site of St. Peter’s crucifixion. Bramante designed a church in the shape of a Greek cross but after his death in 1514 a succession of architects, including Rafael, Fra Giacondo and Fiuliano da San Gallo, made drastic changes. In 1546, Michelangelo was called in as chief architect and restored Bramante’s Greek-cross plan. He also designed an enormous dome over the crossing that would dominate the building. His conception may be best judged from the apse of the basilica (the view here), since the front of the building was later considerable changed. After Michelangelo’s death in 1564, the dome was carried out in slightly modified form by Giacomo della Porta. Under Pope Sixtus V, the nave of the building was lengthened to accommodate a vast congregation, in effect destroying the planned domination of the dome from the front of the church. The basilica itself was completed in 1614 although work continued in and around it for decades. The most impressive later additions are Bernini’s magnificent colonnades which extend forward from the sides of the basilica and end in semi-circles enclosing St. Peter’s Square. The great obelisk of Heliopolis, brought to Rome by Emperor Caligula, adorns the center of the Square. The dimensions of St. Peter’s are impressive, as they should be for the largest church in Christendom. The dome rises to a height of 450 feet from the ground and the basilica is 619 feet long. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (R-7A-74-DS)
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1974
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Catholic Church--Buildings., Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.
Topical Subject(s): Church buildings--Vatican City., Church architecture--Vatican City., Architecture, Baroque--Vatican City., Architecture, Renaissance--Vatican City., Plazas--Vatican City., Domes--Vatican City.
Geographic subjects: Vatican City., Vatican City., Vatican City., Vatican City., Vatican City., Vatican City., Vatican City., Piazza San Pietro (Vatican City), Vatican City, Europe--Holy See
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, image no. C-45710; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_C-45710
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:360850

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