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500 Years of Saint Peter's  (2006)

1506-2006: 500 years of the New St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome

"THOU ART PETER-and upon this rock I will build my church."

April 18, 1506 saw the beginning of the end for the almost 1,200-year-old St. Peter's Basilica on the Vatican Hill in Rome. For on this day, under the supervision of the chief architect Donato Bramante, the foundation stone was laid for a new St. Peter's Cathedral. In a sequence of bitter power struggles, shattering defeats and glorious triumphs Bramante, Sangallo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Maderno and Bernini created this world-famous center of the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation might well have taken a quite different course without this building. Like a huge precious shell the dome envelops the humble tomb, buried within its depths, of the Apostle Peter, designated by Jesus to bear responsibility for the Christian faith.

Format: DVD

Region: 1

Running time: 60 minutes

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen Dolby 2.0