There was a bit of construction-maintenance going on as you can see in some of the pictures taken here.
I am a Catholic so this is the chance of a lifetime that I have to get it all in. Before getting inside I was wondering that would there be another chance before I die!
Couldn't wait to get inside ...
The persons we saw first were these two guards with funny clothing, but their faces were as serious and menace as the Secret Service of America. They gave no acknowledgement that you or anybody else were there. Everything else around them were nonexistent.
We didn't need to move. The crowd was moving in in one direction. I couldn't stop it.
Saint Peter Basilica is one of the holiest basilicas in the Catholic faith. It's so humongous with rows and rows of statues, paintings, ornaments, and sculptures that have been collected in the last two millenniums. It also is one of the biggest Basilicas we have seen.
It contains some of the most famous paintings and sculptures known to mankind.
It would be a huge blunder if not counting the famous Michelangelo Pietà among these sculptures.
St. Peter Basilica's sheer dimensions are staggering: 614 feet long, 145 feet high in the aisle soaring to 385 feet inside Michelangelo's dome which is itself 137 feet across.
I was completely loss track of time when I was in there.
On the way out ... looking back.
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