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    In Rome: St. Peter’s

    …by a three-niched monument (aedicula) of 166–170 ce. (Excavations in 1940–49 revealed well-preserved catacombs, with both pagan and Christian graves dating from the period of St. Peter’s burial.) Constantine enclosed the aedicula within a shrine, and during the last 15 years of his life (c. 322–337) he built his…

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