View from the chord of the apse looking across the area of the apse, down the nave, to the narthex and exonarthex. A distance of over 600 feet.

The Colosseum, which could sit 50,000 people for the games, was reputedly the site for the martyrdom of many early Christians. However, it should be noted that there is no contemporary literary or iconographic evidence for ...

The wealth of St. Leonidas is indicated not only by its immense size but by the elaborate carving on remaining capitals as well as the marble of the columns.

Moving out from the center of the colosseum, the arches were part of the upward sloping structure for the seating but also led out of the colosseum. Supporting arch, Salona colosseum.

Note the steps leading up to the apse and in the center-left the two visible squares with holes on which once stood two of the columns supporting the baldacchino over the altar.

This high stylobate in St. Leonidas separates the nave of the basilica from the side aisles. Krautheimer sets forth the hypothesis that the high stylobate was used to separate the more well-to-do Christians from those of ...

Like many ancient baptismal pools, this one is in the shape of a Greek cross with three steps down into the waters of baptism and three steps out of it representing being baptized into Christ and his three days in the grave ...

To appreciate the role of even local martyrs we go to Ancient Corinth and the bema before which the apostle Paul was brought for trial. The bema with Acrocorinth in the background.

To illustrate the importance of local martyrs, we go to the remains of the Basilica of St. Leonidas. The distance from the exonarthex to the apse is approximately 600 feet.

In the immediate foreground is the base of the former ambo with the solea, or raised runway, moving toward the apse and the wall for the iconostasis.