During the great persecution of Christians by Nero in 64 AD, which had as its backdrop, the circus of Caligula, even St. Peter was martyred, crucified and buried, as we read in the Book of Pontificalis (I, 118): Via Aurelia [...] juxta palatium Neronianum in Vaticanum (in the Vatican, the Via Aurelia in front of the palace of Nero). Among the witnesses who identify the place of martyrdom, a step of Eusebius of Caesarea (fourth century) quotes a letter written by Gaius to Proclus in which the priest invites the friend to come to Rome, "the Vatican and the Via Ostiense, you will find the trophies of those who founded this Church ". Because of the importance of this testimony, the shrine of the second century, found during excavations in the Vatican Necropolis to protect the tomb of St. Peter, was named "Trophy of Gaius." Following the proclamation by the Emperor Constantine's Edict of Milan (313 AD), Christians were allowed to build their houses of worship, it was Constantine who in 324 gave to the construction of the Basilica which was to incorporate the " Trophy of Gaius, "and then the tomb of Peter the core of the structure. Consecrated in 329, the great basilica appeared as a longitudinal-shaped building with five naves and a transept. Outside, a staircase leading to the quadrangle in front of the Basilica, also known as Paradise, whose center was a fountain for ablutions of catechumens identified with the large bronze pinecone, mentioned in Dante's Divine Comedy ("His face I seemed long and heavy / like pina di San Pietro in Rome "Inf XXXI 58-60) and now located in the homonymous Courtyard of the Vatican Museums.
It was in this basilica, on Christmas night in the year 800, Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was in this basilica, which until the beginning of 1300 the masses of pilgrims flocked from all over the walk 'Europe to venerate the tomb of the "Prince of the Apostles."
With the abandonment of Rome during the Avignon schism (1309-1377), the basilica, which already had over a thousand years, began to have increasing problems of static and conservation. There are many reports on the subject, but you know that Pope Nicholas V in the middle of 1400 had drawn up a project architect Bernardo Rossellini, which provided a new chorus, outside the Constantinian apse: it was built in part height of about five feet.
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