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St. Peter's Basilica

The church is built on Vatican Hill, across the Tiber river from the historic center of Rome. This location is highly symbolic: this was the site where Saint Peter, the chief apostle, died a martyr and where he was buried in 64 AD. St. Peter is considered the first pope, so it made perfect sense for the papacy to build the principal shrine of the Catholic church here.

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Uploaded on October 6, 2005
Taken on June 6, 2005