Pope Paul VI enters the crossing of the basilica at the beginning of the papal audience.

Student Dale DeWild takes us back almost two millennia to what in Roman times was the city central to defense of the empire's eastern boundary on the Rhine. The great basilica (i.e. the hall of the king, or Caesar's ...

In 1969 it was still the custom to set the cathedra for the pope in front of the high altar from which he presided for the papal audience.

Lord, in Caesar's house: With the use of the basilica also came imperial iconography now used for Christ. See "Iconography for an Aniconic Faith."

The basilica, and now the hall of the heavenly king, is shown here in it's iteration as a Lutheran church, with members of the Western Christendom Travel Seminar wandering about.

The Reverend Fred Busema presented a paper on the lives of Saints Francis and Clare together with a description of the frescos of the life of St. Francis by Giotto.

From the early Byzantine period we proceed to the Middle Ages and the rise of Venice with a paper by Crystal and Mark Walvoord.

The modern baptistery in this fourth century Constantine basilica is marked by the low balistry surrounding the indented "pool" of ceramic water surrounding the pediment of an ancient Roman column which supports the baptismal ...

Subsequently named after Constantine, the victor at the Milvian Bridge. Only three side bays remain but the bases of the arch and the piers in the foreground clearly show the size of the original structure.

Another first for the WCTS was a musical performance in the Basilica of Maxentius.