Lateran Palace

noun

1. a palace in Rome used as the papal residence from the 4th century a.d. to the removal of the papal court to Avignon, rebuilt in 1586, and now a museum for classical and Christian antiques.

Example Sentences

He created Titian a Count of the Lateran Palace, of the Aulic Council, and of the Consistory; with the title of Count Palatine, and all the advantages attached to those dignities.

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His successor, Paschal I., was accused of blinding and murdering two ecclesiastics in the Lateran Palace.

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Then his Holiness descended from the Throne, and being seated in his Procession Chair, was carry’d to the Lateran Palace.

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At that time the Bishop of Rome in his Lateran Palace, had become the greatest ground landlord in Italy, and even in all the West.

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They have been carefully removed from the cemeteries, and are now systematically arranged by M. de Rossi, on the walls of the Christian museum, recently formed by order of Pius IX., in the Lateran Palace.

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