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Stuckinthebush

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Fri Apr 12, 2019, 11:10 AM Apr 2019

Holy Stairs, Batman! [View all]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/holy-stairs-believed-to-have-been-climbed-by-jesus-unveiled-in-rome/ar-BBVRYj3?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP

Holy Stairs believed to have been climbed by Jesus unveiled in Rome

After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the "Scala Sancta," or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in time for the thousands of people who will flock to Rome and the Vatican for Easter.

The steps were believed to be part of Pontius Pilate’s palace in Jerusalem and are the same steps Jesus climbed before being tried by the Roman governor and sentenced to crucifixion.

It is believed that Emperor Constantine's mother, St. Helena, brought the steps from Jerusalem to Rome in the fourth century once Christianity became the Roman Empire's main religion. They are now housed in a building that contains part of the old papal Lateran Palace, across from the Basilica of St. John the Lateran in Rome.



All I can say is, "Jesus Christ, people are gullible..."
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Holy Stairs, Batman! [View all] Stuckinthebush Apr 2019 OP
Yikes, someone can get hurt on them.... Historic NY Apr 2019 #1
How does that old song go... Faux pas Apr 2019 #2
that is sad RussBLib Apr 2019 #3
What else did she bring? Cartoonist Apr 2019 #4
Stairway to Heaven! Stuckinthebush Apr 2019 #7
I don't get the toxicity about this archaeological treasure. DetlefK Apr 2019 #5
Toxic? That might be a harsh word Stuckinthebush Apr 2019 #6
In addition Cartoonist Apr 2019 #8
Toxicity? Like when people disown their gay children, and lindysalsagal Jun 2019 #15
No reason a made-up story can't use a real head of state as a character. Iggo Sep 2019 #18
Jesus was a carpenter... Freelancer Apr 2019 #9
yeah, maybe they could dig up Jesus' handmade coat rack RussBLib Apr 2019 #10
Hard profession to be in if you have an aversion to nails :-O -nt Freelancer Apr 2019 #11
Always seemed odd all the parables and metaphors were so agrarian Freelancer Apr 2019 #12
Constantine's Mom. Iggo Apr 2019 #14
Group Masterbation lindysalsagal Apr 2019 #13
This is NOTHING compared to... reACTIONary Jul 2019 #16
The Emperor made his own mother a saint? Farmer-Rick Aug 2019 #17
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