an old man received a commission from pope clement the ninth to design the entrance to the cast as some tangent of. the building was the most a limb of emperor hadrian and the triumphant entrance way over the bridge was lined with statues of the classical dogs of victory many replace these with angels converting a pagan monument into christian. the angels honed the instruments of the passion for christie in their hands the road becomes a symbolic way of the cross or via dolorosa like the one walked by the pilgrims in jerusalem many converted it into a triumphal procession and the angels bear went. as to it with the symbols of christ s passion. the angel with a crown of forms was sculpted by many himself the newly sculpted angel stood in the