Hey my friends, it's Matt. This is a 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I know a lot of you have probably had a chance to do some pretty cool travel around the world. I also know

that a lot of you are just like you're on the front end of adulthood and you'll get to the

travel thing a little bit later on but I highly recommend Rome.

It's just cool whether you are a Christian or not a Christian whether you are of a Catholic persuasion or otherwise.

It's just so much history there, layers and layers of it, all kinds of church history.

And of course, Rome is attached to the Vatican, Vatican City,

which is like the headquarters of Catholicism, but the home church of the Pope

is not St. Peter's Basilica, the big giant church in the middle of the Vatican.

If I'm recalling correctly, the home church of the Pope is actually St. John's Lateran in Rome.

And this is a site, site church has got all kinds of interesting history.

I think Charlemagne was either baptized there, maybe he was even crowned there by the Pope.

Was it there or was it St. Peter's Basilica?

I don't know.

Charlemagne at any rate, the gigantic super important ninth century ruler who is credited with co-founding the Holy Roman Empire.

He's got history there.

The Cadavors Synod, where they dug up an old dead corpse body and then put them on trial for bad

poping that happened at St John's Lateran.

All kinds of art is stored there.

Amazing renaissance sculptures of all of the disciples line the nave

what Protestants or lots of other Christians which is called the sanctuary area

but like the main area where people sit in church is flanked by these incredible

larger-than-life heroic Greek-style classical depictions of all of the

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