Scala Santa

Name: Scala Santa
Address: Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 14, 00185 Roma RM, Italy, Roma, Italia

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Address :	Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 14, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
Phone :	📞 +977
Website :	https://www.scala-santa.com/
Categories :	Tourist attraction , Catholic church ,
City :	Roma
Description :	Catholic sanctuary with a set of religiously significant marble stairs leading to a papal chapel.

Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 14, 00185 Roma RM, Italy

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E	EWTN Vatican on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This largely unnoticed building at the right side of the Basilica of St John Lateran holds one of the most important relics in all of Christianity - The Holy Stairs. Christian tradition holds that Jesus Christ climbed them before his crucifixion. They led to the praetorium of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem. A few days before Easter, the stairs were uncovered for the first time in 300 years. In 2019, the bare marble stairs were available for the pilgrims to climb, uniting their sufferings with the sufferings of Christ.
V	Viji Roberts on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What breaks your heart is to see the many who'd do all it takes to do something for God. This is where you'd see people on their knees climbing up a flight of stairs what traditon would have us believe are steps from Pilate the governor's house. They forget that it is God who did everything by sending His Son to die on the cross to take the place of every believer who puts his or her trust on Jesus Christ. It is God who did everything that's needed, not man trying to please God. That's the gospel of Jesus Christ. Would you believe Him today for the salvation of your soul?
L	Lu Bi Huang on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For anyone who climbs the stairs, please try not to just rush it and read the information at the bottom of the stairs. It provides a bit of a background and how to properly climb it (ie meditating on each step on the Passion)
R	Rebecca L on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The legend says these were the last stairs Jesus took
E	Engr. Francisco Vanguardia Jr. on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is well off the main tourist route and may be it should stay that way. It is more a place of pilgrimage than a tourist attraction. Nevertheless it was a fascinating place to spend some time and it its own way rather beautiful. In a building designed by Domenico Fontana in 1589 are two surviving parts of the old Lateran Palace belonging to Helena the mother of the Emperor Constantine. The first is the Scala Santa the holy staircase. The 28 steps are said to have come from the home of Pontius Pilate's house and therefor used by Christ during his trial. The steps are considered so holy that no foot can touch them so the faithful climb the steps on their knees. The second is the Chapel is St Lawrence or Sancta Sanctorum (Holy of Holies) which contains numerous relics. The most important being an image of Jesus - the Acheiropoetion, said to be the work of St Luke.
I	Il marchese on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What remains of the Patriarch is the ancient seat of the Popes before the Vatican. One of the places where the devotion of the Christian faithful is expressed by climbing the steps of the staircase on their knees. At the end of the climb you can peek through the windows of the chapel of the Sancta Sanctorum, the image of Christ that tradition wants painted by San Luca. The chapel was covered with fourteenth-century frescoes and in the lower part by Byzantine mosaics. Beautiful.
C	Cedric Bru on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Interesting atmosphere, seeing so many people praying while climbing the stairs on their knees. I took the normal stairs instead for the thing that interested me most: the holy of holies. An ancient chapel with impressive mosaics and frescoes. Astonishing.
C	Chase Hamilton on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A truly humbling experience. In my opinion, the Holy Steps should be more famous and visited than the Spanish Steps. It is amazing to stand and walk in such a place ❤