![]() Julius Caesar was Pontifex Maximums, the highest priest, before he was elected as Consul, the highest Republican political role. Since its foundation, Ancient Rome was a deeply religious society and religious and political office often went hand in hand. Saint Peter was killed in Nero’s persecution of Christians following the Great Fire of 64 AD but by 319 AD, Emperor Constantine was building the church that was to become St Peter’s Basilica over his grave. ![]() It’s not a coincidence that the capital of the Roman Empire became the centre of Roman Catholicism Rome’s eventual adoption of Christianity, after centuries of indifference and periodic persecution, gave the new faith enormous reach. It is still globally important though, with more than one billion people looking to it as the centre of the Roman Catholic faith. ![]() The Rome of today is no longer the centre of a great empire.
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