Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
Saint Paul Outside the Walls—Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura—is one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas, set among the Seven Pilgrim Churches. The story starts with Paul the Apostle’s tomb: tradition places the burial site here, outside the Aurelian Walls, where early believers first raised a memorial called a *cella memoriae*. A major turning point comes with Pope Sylvester, who consecrates an early church in 324, and then Constantine the Great, who founded the site in the 4th century. Later, Emperor Theodosius I begins rebuilding a far grander basilica in 386, and it’s likely consecrated around 402 by Pope Innocent I. Then—because Rome never does things gently—there’s a catastrophic fire on 15 July 1823. After that, the present building is completed in 1840 and it’s tied to the adjacent Benedictine abbey. …
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