VATICANO - St. Pauls outside the Walls

Just steps outside of the walls that once protected Rome from intruders is a beautiful Basilica.

It’s dedicated to one of the most important man of the early Church, the Apostle of the Gentiles, St. Paul.

It is “outside the walls” since St. Paul suffered martyrdom outside of Rome and because his remains were buried precisely here.

The church building was built by the Roman Emperor Constantine over the burial place of the apostle, where it was said that, after the Apostle's execution, his followers erected a memorial, called a “cella memoriae.”