authorized the search for the bones of the apostle peter beneath the basilica. digging was conducted in secrecy and at night so no one would hear anything above in the basilica it wasn t long before workman made a significant discovery. soon a vatican archaeologist was overseeing the operations for the find was a christian tomb and ultimately a handful of clones was on earth it was only twenty five years later that pope paul the sixth announced the remains of st peter had been found below the vatican. after the great fire nero set about reconstructing the destroyed districts two thousand years later not much of his efforts has survived the ruins of an insulating a multistory department block. in nero s day such tenements were groundbreaking both in terms of architecture and city planning as a way of providing housing for the growing population very. near zero made his mark
a class hated for their abominations called christians by their property. this. rome s establishment was incensed by the egalitarian ism of the christian community where freed men sat a long aristocrats a no go in the hierarchical and class conscious society of ancient rome. and cuts from delaware the traditional roman would have looked at a christian community and sat i mean i did because their attacks that quote them and this is an outrageous gathering which permits fishmongers wise to speak about religion and he ordered press. and credits and so a traditional roman would have found the christian community pretty scandalous and because of the disconcerting way it removed hierarchical distinctions in the social stratification he finds he owned it was given as a trust of. the church of son giovanni a power on the kalian hill this was where the super rich lived in nero s day and
for there was no systematic religious persecution of christians under nero and. the so called persecution of christians must be viewed in the context of the great fire and it s rather a caution it s the. most honk and it s all it was designed to offer the romans who had experienced great suffering if a big spectacle before namely people who were on fire be nameless but enda mention . according to christian legend the apostle peter was also among those condemned to death. the story first surfaces in a second century collection of writings about peter s life. and others adopted the story as a motif. for most christians this legend has long since become historical fact. but the opulent
age. three meters under the church s foundations a subterranean world allows a glimpse into the past. back in nero s day this was a light filled city palace. the owner presided over a network of twenty rooms magnificently appointed with frescos. as was typical in the homes of rome as well healed the walls and ceilings were painted with fantastical creatures and mythological scenes. but the owner of these rooms was christian. the proof lies in the press goes on the wall were the oldest surviving private chapel in rome dating from a time when support for the jewish sect was not dangerous because the citizens of rome enjoyed religious freedom.
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