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- The Scala Sancta (English: Holy Stairs, Italian: Scala Santa) are, according to the Christian tradition, the steps that led up to the praetorium of Pontius Pilate...
- Since these sacred steps are not meant to be walked on, my class took the separate set of stairs parallel to the 'Scala Sancta' to reach the top.
- Copies of the Scala Sancta. Imitations of the Scala Sancta were erected in several locations and indulgences were often attached to them
- Scala Sancta, (HOLY STAIRS), consisting of twenty-eight white marble steps, at Rome, near the Lateran; according to tradition the staircase leading once to the...
- Copies of the Scala Sancta around the world. Imitations of the Scala Sancta have been erected in various places, as in Lourdes and in some convents of nuns...
- Next to the Scala Sancta is the Basilica San Giovanni Laterano which compares favorably with St. Peter's Basilica.
- The Scala Sancta or Holy Stairs are composed of 28 marble white marble steps. ... In the 1700s the Scala Sancta were encased in wood in order to protect them.
- In its new site the Scala Sancta is flanked by four other stairs, two on each side, for common use, since the Holy Stairs may only be ascended on the knees...