A number of statues are found within the basilica's interior.

Innocent's body was transferred to the basilica's Altar of Transfiguration, which is located near the Clementine Chapel and the entombed remains of Pope St. Gregory the Great ( 590 – 604 ).

Méthode pour l ’ étude de l ’ église comme temple de Dieu, she concluded, through multiple arguments ( mainly theological and archaeological ), that the true site of Golgotha was precisely at the vertical of the now buried Constantinian basilica's altar and away from where the traditional rock of Golgotha is situated.

The basilica's 16th-century coffered ceiling, to a design by Giuliano da Sangallo, is said to be gilded with Inca gold presented by Ferdinand and Isabella to the Spanish pope, initially brought by Christopher Columbus, Alexander VI ( something which factually is erroneous, since the Inca empire was conquered during the reign of Charles V ).

During the Christmas Season, a nativity scene that Saint Vincent himself made is put on display at the Vatican, in the basilica's square, before the Christmas tree.

The ovato tondo's long axis, parallel to the basilica's façade, creates a pause in the sequence of forward movements that is characteristic of a Baroque monumental approach.

The church is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland whose icon, perhaps dating back to the 18th century, is displayed in the basilica's main altar.

It is sometimes carried in processions as a sign of a basilica's dignity.

It is supervised by István Baróti, the basilica's organist and choirmaster since 1975.

The " Noodkist " is normally kept in the basilica's treasury, along with other treasures that are associated with the saint ( the crozier, a pectoral cross, a chalice, and a symbolic key to heaven ).

A large icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa that was brought in from Poland occupies the shrine in the basilica's western transept.

Following his beatification, his sarcophagus was placed under the Altar of St. Sebastian in the basilica's Chapel of St. Sebastian, where it remained until 8 April 2011 when it was moved to make way for the remains of Blessed Pope John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) to be relocated to the basilica from the grotto beneath St. Peter's in honor of his beatification and in order to make his resting place more accessible to the public.

In Italian, the basilica's name translates as Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano.

In reflection of the basilica's claim to primacy in the world as " mother church ", the words Sacrosancta Lateranensis ecclesia omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput ( meaning " Most Holy Lateran Church, of all the churches in the city and the world, the mother and head ") are incised in the front wall between the main entrance doors.

File: St John Lateran claim as head church in the world. jpg | The basilica's claim to being the head church in the world.

Over time the monasteries and the basilica's clergy declined ; Pope Saint Gregory II restored the former and entrusted the monks with the basilica's care.

The archaeological traces of the basilica's history were discovered in the 1860s by Joseph Mullooly.

The wing of the canonica ( sacristy ) to its left and a matching wing to the right ( designed by Flaminio Ponzio ) give the basilica's front the aspect of a palace facing Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore.

The basilica's stained glass windows are mostly from the 19th century.

The massed accretions of the Vatican Palace crowded the space to the right of the basilica's façade ; the structures needed to be masked without obscuring the papal apartments.

Its balanced cupola ( 20 meters of diameter and 60 meters high ) and facade soberly decorated with marble are the basilica's most notable points.

Three pairs of monumental bronze doors were hung along the main entrance at the basilica's northern end by famed Polish sculptor Professor Czesław Dźwigaj, well known for also casting the monument of Christ the King in Cicero in front of the church of St. Mary of Częstochowa as well as the Tolerance Monument that was recently unveiled in Jerusalem.

The architects do not believe that the education of the interior designer is sufficiently good or sufficiently extended to compare with that of the architect and that, therefore, the interior designer is incapable of understanding the architectural principles involved in planning the interior of a building.

To begin with, what is an interior designer??

It is possible, of course, to work on extant or projected buildings where either architect or owner will explain their necessities so that the student may get `` the feel '' of real interior design demands.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

It is only fair to demand that teachers of courses in English, history, psychology and so on be as well informed in matters of art, especially interior design, as are the art teachers educated in the academic subjects.

If the vertex is at Af, and if the interior of C is on the left as one moves in the direction of increasing t, then every such corner can be found from the curve obtained by rotating C clockwise through 90-degrees about the vertex.

For it is clear that the total number of ordinary intersections of C and Af must be even ( otherwise, starting in the interior of C, Af could not finally return to the interior ), and the center of rotation at T is the argument of the function, not a value.

The Pantheon's interior, still in its original form, is truly majestic and an architectural triumph.

The only means of interior light is the twenty-nine-foot-wide aperture in the stupendous dome.

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

The same mixture to make bricks, without the straw, is used for mortar and often for plaster on interior and exterior walls.

Beginning in the west of Antalya province, the south-facing Mediterranean coast of Turkey is separated from the interior by steep ranges, known as the Taurus mountains, that run along the entire length of the coast.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

If one also removes the second postulate (" a line can be extended indefinitely ") then elliptic geometry arises, where there is no parallel through a point outside a line, and in which the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than 180 degrees.

A contraction of a word is made by omitting certain letters or syllables and bringing together the first and last letters or elements ; an abbreviation may be made by omitting certain portions from the interior or by cutting off a part.

This, plus the habit of many schools of simply adding interior design to the many subjects of their home economics department, yet, nevertheless, claiming that they teach interior design, has contributed to the low repute of many university courses in interior design.

The interior of the home is covered in murals.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

His home, redecorated in 1935 by actor-turned interior designer William Haines with gardens designed by Florence Yoch & Lucile Council, was the scene of many gatherings for the industry's homosexuals.

Scarlett chooses a modern Swiss chalet style home like the one she saw in Harper's Weekly, and red wallpaper, thick red carpet and black walnut furniture for the interior.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

Navy blue remains the primary color on the home jersey, but the familiar lightning bolt was reverted to gold, and now has navy outlining and Collegiate ( powder ) blue interior trim.

The interior upstairs scenes were filmed in a downtown Evans City home that later became the offices of a prominent local physician and family doctor ( Allsop ).

“... The English home closed up and darkened over the decade ( 1850s ), the cult of domesticity matched by a cult of privacy .” Bourgeois existence was a world of interior space, heavily curtained off and wary of intrusion, and opened only by invitation for viewing on occasions such as parties or teas.

If a contractor builds a " turnkey home " they frame the structure and finish the interior.

The Royal Pavilion is a former royal palace built as a home for the Prince Regent during the early 19th century, under the direction of the architect John Nash, and is notable for its Indo-Saracenic architecture and Oriental interior.

Philodendron is an important plant in the ecosystems of the rainforests and is often used in home and interior decorating.

He was invited to the home of the head of the tribe of the desert interior, Bou-Allem.

This theatre was the home of the RSC while the RST was being refurbished ; its interior is similar to the interior of the refurbished RST.

From 1930 to 1935, the interior designer Madeleine Castaing and her husband welcomed him home during the summer in their mansion of Lèves, becoming his patrons, so that Soutine could hold his first exhibition in Chicago in 1935.

For example a heat pump water heater could cool the interior of a home, reducing or eliminating the need for air conditioning.

On the home white jersey, the numbers are purple, with white interior trim and teal outlining.

The new home uniform consisted of an updated " Jazz " script on the center chest in navy blue, with navy numbers, both of which had silver interior trim and powder blue outlining.

For thousands of years, the area was home to the Chumash tribe of Native Americans, complex hunter-gatherers who lived along the coast and in interior valleys leaving rock art in many locations including Painted Cave.

In 1870 Bleek and Lloyd, by now working together on the project to learn Bushman language and record personal narratives and folklore, became aware of the presence of a group of 28 ǀXam prisoners ( Bushmen from the central interior of southern Africa ) at the Breakwater Convict Station and received permission to relocate one prisoner to their home in Mowbray so as to learn his language.

Since the San Gabriel Valley area was home to large numbers of oak trees such as coast live oak and interior live oak, a staple of the Tongva diet was an acorn mush made by boiling acorn flour.

The area is home to wood milling companies that produce interior trim products ( Cox Interior, Wholesale Hardwoods ).