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    It has been a pagan temple, a Catholic church, a source of military materiel, a mausoleum, and a major tourist attraction. What is it and by what name is it called by the Church?

    Question #56952. Asked by lanfranco. (Apr 28 05 5:28 PM)


    kaylofgorons

    		Mammoth Caves?

    Apr 28 05, 7:45 PM
    lanfranco

    		Oh, get serious, kayl. (Though that is kind of a cute answer.)

    Apr 28 05, 7:47 PM
    robboy

    		I'm a little stumped on the military materiel that may have come from them, but the rest sound a lot like the Catacombs in Rome, or the ones perhaps in Paris.

    Apr 28 05, 8:36 PM
    kaylofgorons

    		Salt pieter (sp?) can be removed from underground places and turned into gun powder or one of it's ingredients.

    Apr 28 05, 8:39 PM
    lanfranco

    		Get your heads out of the ground, gentlemen, and try again.

    Apr 28 05, 9:24 PM
    peasypod

    		Just a quick stab, but I'll throw in Castel Sant'Angelo. Not too sure about the Catholic church bit but there is a secret passage to the Vatican....

    Apr 28 05, 9:47 PM
    lanfranco

    		Well, you are getting much warmer, peasy ...

    Apr 28 05, 9:50 PM
    peasypod

    		How's about the Pantheon, then? It's been a pagan temple, a Catholic church, a mausoleum, and a major tourist attraction from which the Romans have great pleasure telling the poor saps that rain never falls through the oculus, and funnily enough Pope Urban VIII ordered the bronze ceiling of the Pantheon's portico melted down to make bombards for the fortification of Castel Sant'Angelo...

    Apr 28 05, 10:47 PM
    lanfranco

    		Yay, peasy! And like the Castel Sant'Angelo, the present Pantheon was built by Hadrian. (The dedicatory inscription refers back to an earlier building that had to be replaced.) The artists Raphael and Annibale Carracci are buried in the Pantheon, along with Vittorio Emmanuele II, the first king of Italy.

    I'm still looking for the Christian name ...

    Apr 29 05, 8:25 AM
    MrsAce

    		Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Martyres

    http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html

    Apr 29 05, 11:19 AM
    lanfranco

    		And yay to you, too, MrsAce. The traditional shape for a martyrium, by the way, is round.

    Apr 29 05, 11:42 AM

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