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We visited St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.basilica = in Roman architecture, a public building for assemblies
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a Roman Catholic church or cathedral given certain privileges (typically architecturally similar to earlier Roman public buildings of the same name) -
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Vittoria Vetra stood trembling at the foot of the basilica's sweeping stairs. (source)basilica = an important Roman Catholic church given certain privileges (typically architecturally similar to earlier Roman public buildings of the same name)
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It waited in the anteroom off the main basilica to be fitted for the plain wooden coffin.† (source)
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You are a wonder, Gen. I will carve your name on a stele outside the basilica, I promise.† (source)
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I was especially drawn to Krakow's grand parks and historic buildings, such as the Old Synagogue, which dated back to the 1400s, and St. Mary's Basilica, a majestic fourteenth-century Gothic church that towered over the main square.† (source)
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She wanted to see it all-the famous châteaux of the Loire Valley, the Parthenon, the Scottish highlands, the Basilica-all the places she'd read about.† (source)
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Florentino Ariza continued to patrol La Manga, continued to hear Mass without devotion in the basilica of the seminary, continued to attend civic ceremonies that never would have interested him in another state of mind, but the passage of time only increased the credibility of the story he had heard.† (source)
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Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing forgetfulness and degradation, at first jarred her as with an electric shock, and then urged themselves on her with that ache belonging to a glut of confused ideas which check the flow of emotion.† (source)
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I was to stand on the top steps of the burned-out Basilica of St Paul on the Calcada.† (source)
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The family home, in the very center of the historic district, was the old mint, denatured by a Florentine architect who came through here like an ill wind blowing renovation and converted many seventeenth-century relics into Venetian basilicas.† (source)
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The basilica of a domed church rose on their right.† (source)
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The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snuglyin the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places.† (source)
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also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the Holy See, Canon of the illustrious Liberian basilica, Advocate of the saints, Postulatore dei Santi, which refers to matters of canonization, and signifies very nearly: Master of Requests of the section of Paradise.† (source)
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When we return, you must make a visit to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.† (source)
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Waves of rose and gold throbbed up the sky from behind the dome of the Basilica.† (source)
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I will not go so far as to say that it is quite the ugliest, for, although there are certain things in Saint-Hilaire which are well worth a visit, there are others that are very old now, in my poor basilica, the only one in all the diocese that has never even been restored.† (source)
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