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    The Scala Sancta (English: Holy Stairs, Italian: Scala Santa) are a set of 28 white marble steps located in an edifice on extraterritorial property of...
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    The Sancta Sanctorum (Italian: Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Palatio ad Sancta Sanctorum) is a Roman Catholic chapel entered via the Scala Sancta (Holy Staircase)...
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  • Look up sancta in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sancta may refer to: Scala Sancta, a set of 28 white marble steps that are Roman Catholic relics located...
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    former stone is now used as the main altar of the church. The church's Scala Sancta is to be found in lateral chapel, renovated in 2000. Tomb of Anton Raphael...
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    constituent parts of the Lateran complex are the building of the Scala Sancta with the Sancta Sanctorum and the Triclinium of Pope Leo III. Another basilica...
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    represented only by his commanding hand, sentencing Jesus to death. The Scala sancta, supposedly the staircase from Pilate's praetorium, now located in Rome...
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    pope's private chapel, in a room now known as the Sancta Sanctorum at the top of the Scala Sancta in a surviving part of the old Lateran Palace in Rome...
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    motif of illuminated manuscripts known as "the fountain of life". The Scala Sancta, or Holy Stairs, are white marble steps encased in wooden ones. They...
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  • Jesus by the soldiers prior to his crucifixion.[citation needed] The Scala Sancta, the stairs from Pontius Pilate's praetorium, ascended by Jesus during...
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    and the Pontifical Beda College). Lateran Palace, Lateran University, the Scala Santa and adjoining buildings, Palace of St Callixtus (Palazzo San Callisto)...
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