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Mistress of the Vatican
and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Papal coronations
were held in Saint Peter’s Basilica, where, it was thought, the
power of the saint himself would be transferred directly to his new
earthly representative.
The grand basilica of Innocent’s time had risen from the humblest
beginnings. In 500 b.c., Etruscan professional soothsayers called vaticinia
lived in the swamps there at the foot of a modest hill. For a price,
they would slaughter an animal and read fortunes in the shape and
color of the liver. Vatican clay was used in pots, bricks, and roof tiles.
Around a.d. 40, Emperor Caligula built a stadium, called a circus,
for chariot races on the site. Inside he placed an immense twelve-hundred-year-old
red-granite obelisk he had swiped from Egypt. Since no
one wanted to live in a mosquito-ridden sinkhole outside the walls of
Rome, a pagan graveyard sprouted outside the sports arena. Emperor
Nero even buried his favorite chariot horses there.
In a.d. 64 when the great fire of Rome was blamed on Nero, the emperor,
in turn, blamed that strange new sect, the Christians. Since the
Colosseum would not be built for another fifteen years, Nero held his
executions in the Vatican Circus. Christians were made to don animal
skins and run from ravenous dogs, who tore them to pieces. Others,
smeared with tar, were nailed to crosses and set alight, human torches
for nighttime entertainment. Two particularly troublesome Christians,
Paul and Peter, were dispatched. According to Catholic tradition, as a
Roman citizen Paul was beheaded and his body buried outside Rome.
But the poor fisherman from Judea was crucified. Peter reportedly refused
the honor of dying in exactly the same way Jesus did. Crucify me
upside down, he said, and they did. It is possible the last sight Peter saw
on earth was the great Egyptian obelisk, which now stands in front of
Saint Peter’s Basilica.
Executed criminals were often denied burial, their bodies tossed into
the Cloaca Maxima, Rome’s great sewer. It is likely that Peter’s friends
came that night to the circus to cut down his body and, unable pull out
the nails in his feet, cut off the feet at the ankles. They placed his body
in a hole dug on the side of Vatican Hill—about 150 feet up from the
road—and covered it with roof tiles, the poorest kind of Roman burial.
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