All 12 Uses of
grotto
in
Angels & Demons
- At the base of the rear wall, a stone bulwark jutted out concealing a narrow grotto-a kind of compressed passageway cutting directly into the foundation of the church.†
Chpt 63-64
- The grave decisions facing the camerlegno required information …. information entombed in a sarcophagus in the Vatican Grottoes.†
Chpt 83-84 *
- The Holy Vatican Grottoes are located beneath the main floor of St. Peter's Basilica.†
Chpt 85-86
- Vittoria reached the bottom of the spiral staircase and entered the grotto.†
Chpt 85-86
- Thirty seconds later, in the Vatican Grottoes, Vittoria was standing before a corpse when the electronic squawk of a walkie-talkie broke the silence.†
Chpt 85-86
- The central core alone was over twenty feet tall-a rugged mountain of travertine marble riddled with caves and grottoes through which the water churned.†
Chpt 101-102
- Just a simple hole in the wall, beyond which lay a small grotto and a meager, crumbling sarcophagus.†
Chpt 119-120
- The grotto around the canister blinked red as the LED counted down into its final five minutes of life.†
Chpt 119-120
- Deep in the Vatican Grottoes, Cardinal Mortati knelt alone before the open sarcophagus.†
Chpt 135-136
- He knew this sacred grotto was reserved exclusively for the relics of Popes, but somehow Mortati sensed this was appropriate.†
Chpt 135-136
- "Signore?" someone said, entering the grottoes.†
Chpt 135-136
- And had he not ascended miraculously into a pillar of fire, he would now be buried in the Vatican Grottoes along with the other Popes.†
Chpt 135-136
Definition:
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(grotto) a small cave -- usually with attractive features