St. Paul Without the Walls

Immobile Extraterritoriale Vaticano - Vatican Extraterritorial Property	Abbazia di San Paolo Fuori le Mura - St. Paul Outside the Walls	Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, the 2nd largest church in Rome	The first church was built in 324 by Roman Emperor Constantine over the burial place of St. Paul
Plan of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls	Tablet to the 1840 reconsecration of the high altar by Pope Gregory XVI after the 1823 fire	Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura	Window made of translucent alabaster, gift of King Fouad I of Egypt
Upper corner, St. Paul Outside the Walls	Nave of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Nave of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Nave of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
The 5th C. mosaics of the Triumphal Arch survived the 1923 fire	The nave is surrounded by mosaics of each of the popes	Popes Paul V, Leo XI, Clement VIII, Innocent IX	Popes Urban VII, Sixtus V, Gregory XIII
Acts 20:37 procumbentes super collum pauli osculabantur	Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura	Altar of Pope Pius IX	Coat-of-Arms of Pope Pius IX (1846-1878)
Bronze Door, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Bronze door detail, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Narthex - colonnaded portico of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Bronze door with silver inlays depicting the lift of St. Paul, 19289-1931
Bronze door with silver inlays depicting the lift of St. Paul, 19289-1931	Detail of the central door to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Sculpture of St. Paul	Sculpture of St. Paul bearing a sword, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Sculpture of St. Peter, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	The façade mosaics of St. Paul Outside the Walls were completed 1854-1874	Christ between Its Peter and Paul, upper façade mosaics, Basilica of St. Paul	Statue of St. Paul by Giuseppe Obici at the center of the quadriportico in front of the basilica
Praedicatori Veritatis Doctori Gentum - preacher of truth, teacher of the gentiles	Mosaic façade with the lower portion depicting Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel - St. Paul Outside the Walls	Quadriportico in front of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Quadriportico in front of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Mosaic roundel of a ship and two whales, St. Paul Outside the Walls	St. Luke by Francesco Fabi-Altini	Detail of the New Holy Door by Enrico Manfrini, installed in the Jubilee Year 2000, St. Paul Outside the Walls	Of the 3 main doors to the Basilica, only one is regularly used
One of the 4 side aisle, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Detail of the one of the columns, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Rear of the Nave, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Ceiling with coat of arms of Pope Pius IX (1846-1878)
Beautiful mosaic-covered interior of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Jesus Appears to St. Paul on the Road to Damascus	Triumphal Arch in front of the altar and apse with original 5th C. mosaics, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Mosaic of Christ from the 5th C. under Pope Leo the Great (440-461)
The 5th Century of the Arch of Galla Placidia were able to be restored after the 1823 fire	Mosaics of the 20th Century Popes - Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II	Popes Francis, Benedict XVI, John Paul II	Mosaic of Pope Benedict XVI, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Mosaic of the current pope, Francis, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Candelabrum of St. Paul (Easter Candle), 12-13th C.	Candelabrum of St. Paul (Easter Candle), 12-13th C.	Tomb of the Apostle St. Paul
Pope Pius IX year 15 = 1861	Gothic baldachin above the Papal Altar and Tomb of St. Paul	The apse mosaic was commissioned by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) and appears as it did then	Central figure of Christ in the Apse Mosaic
Apse Mosaic, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Apse mosaic with Sts. Luke, Paul, Peter, Andrew	Apse Mosaic - St. Paul, St. Luke	Transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Nave of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls seen from near the Altar	One of the 4 side aisles, Basilica of St. Paul	Altar of the Conversion with statues of Pope Leo the Great and St. Benedict
Altar of the Conversion, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Looking across the transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Cappella S. Stefano - Chapel of St. Stephen, Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura	Statue of the Martyr St. Stephen by Rinaldo Rinaldi
Egyptian alabaster window and painting of St. Paul preaching	Transept and the Triumphal Arch of Galla Placidia	Cappella del Santissimo Sacramento - Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Behind the Papal Altar, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Looking through the back side of the Triumphal Arch to the Baldachin and Nave, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Mosaic of Christ on the back side of the Triumphal Arch commissioned by Pope Gregory XVI in 1840	Cappella di San Lorenzo - Chapel of St. Laurence, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	A little Devil - Cappella di San Benedetto, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
Cappella di San Benedetto with a seated statue of the abbot by Pietro Tenerani	St. John the Baptist, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	South Transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	South Transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
The malachite altar of the transept was donated by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia	Altar of the Coronation of the Virgin, south transept, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Oratory of San Giuliano - Sala del Martirologio with fresco fragments of the saints from the 12th-13th C.	Cloister of the Benedictine Abbey connected to the Basilica of St. Paul
Painting in the Cloister of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Chapel of the Reliquaries - Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Reliquary of an arm, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	The south transept seen from the cloister, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
The Cloister of St. Paul Outside the Wall is lined with ancient carvings and altars	Sarcophagus, Cloister of the Basilica of St. Paul	Carved relief and inscribed tablets, Cloister of the Basilica of St. Paul	The Dogmatic Sarcophagus, also called the Sarcophagus of the Two Testaments
Detail of the Sarcophagus of the Two Testaments	Detail of the Sarcophagus of the Two Testaments	Detail of the Sarcophagus of the Two Testaments	Sculpture of a head without the body, Cloister of St. Paul
Lithograph of the 1823 fire which destroyed much of the Basilica of St. Paul	Lithograph of the Basilica of St. Paul after the 1823 fire	Apse and Transept of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Egyptian Alabaster Windows with a fresco of St. Paul taken to heaven
Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls - San Paolo Fuori le Mura	Apse of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Apse of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Altar of the Conversion of St. Paul, North Transept
North aisle, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Baldachin over the Papal Altar and Tomb of St. Paul	Sculpture of St. Peter, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Side aisle, Basilica of St. Paul
Quadriportico, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Quadriportico, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Quadriportico, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Extraterritorial Building of the Vatican
Neoclassical Campanile by Luigi Poletti, completed in 1860	Bell Tower of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls	Eastern exterior of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls