St Nektarios of Aegina
November 9
St John Lateran is the Pope’s church, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome where the Bishop of Rome presides.
The first basilica on the site was built in the fourth century when Constantine donated land he had received from the wealthy Lateran family. That structure and its successors suffered fire, earthquake and the ravages of war, but the Lateran remained the church where popes were consecrated until the popes left Rome and then returned from Avignon in the 14th century, to find the church and the adjoining palace in ruins.
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