It’s the world’s largest Basilica of Christianity, nested in the heart of the Vatican city, with its 186 metres of length (218 if we consider the porch too), a height of 46 metres in the central aisle, a main dome 136 metre high and 42 metres large in diameter. The huge façade is 114 metres wide and 47 metres high. It has a surface of 22000 square metres and twenty thousand persons can pray in it.
Pope Francis(Papa Francesco in Latin)is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church,
Thank you
Marina for the wonderful Papa Francesco card/matching stamp and Vatican City Postal cancellation.
2016 Stamp -Pontification of Pope Francis MMXVI Ivbilaevm Misericordiae.
Vatican City State
Date of Inscription: 1984
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