... year 1073, due to the death of Pope Alexander II, after ruling for 12 years. "On the following day his funeral mass was celebrated and he was buried in the Basilica of the Holy Savior, in Rome. As the rights were completed and the Cardinals stood in prayer, before the crypt of the dead pontiff. Suddenly, without apparent cause, there welled ... up a great roar in the midst of the Basilica "let Hindebrand be Pope!" And as if swept up in an irresistible wave, the assembled cardinals and bishops and priests answered with the shout: "Saint Peter has chosen Hildebrand!"1. ( taken ... ...

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... one was held. The Vatican II council was a meeting of the religious chain of command explicitly for the purpose of executing judicial and doctrinal works. They met at St. Peter's Basilica and discussed issues in four sessions held between 1962 and 1965. Pope John XXIII aspired to generate an atmosphere where the church would participate in all the facets of the ... ...

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... in which these people sought their salvation was a mere shadow of its former self. The Roman Catholic Church had allowed the Renaissance to enter the sacred halls of St. Peter's Basilica with Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel. This was paid for by the sale of relics and indulgences, which served to further outrage those who wanted to return to piety ... ...

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... be made just simply by faith in God- or justification by faith. During the time of Luther's new ideas, Pope Leo X, in attempting to raise money to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, authorized the sale of indulgences. Luther preached against this and also lectured against other church practices he believed were wrong. Eventually, Luther came of with a list of 95 things attacking ... ...

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... fact, you could say even the concept of Indulgences proved the church was avarice and greedy... Especially the Peter Indulgence where the money was used to finish building St Peters Basilica in Rome. In 1520, Luther wrote a pamphlet called "The Adress to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation" appealing to the Germans to reform the church because the papacy and ... ...

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Martin Luther's Interpretation of Christianity And Its Effects Roman Catholics believed in indulgences, an act that was used, among other things, to finance the magnificent St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. This spurred the monk, Martin Luther to protest and argue that salvation came not bydoing certain things? but from religious faith. His dispute against the Pope, led him ... ...

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... refined passionless style of late Mannerism that soon led into the Baroque style (Scribner, 7). In 1605 Pietro Bernini and his family moved back to Rome and settled near the ancient basilica that was at the time being restored in response to the Counter-Reformation. The dawn of the Baroque period had begun in the Eternal City of Rome (Scribner, 7). In growing ... ...

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... where he gained his architectural fame under Alexander VII. When Barberini was subsequently installed as Pope Urban VIII, 1623, Bernini was put in charge of building operations at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where one of his early works, 1624-33, was the canopy [baldachin] over the high altar. Bernini originally worked in the Late Mannerist tradition but rejected the ... ...

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