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The 4 basilicas
Since the year 1300, on the will of Pope Bonifacio VIII, started the celebration of the "Jubilee" in Rome, also called "Saint Year".
During this period it is possible to benefit from the plenary forgivingness by visiting at least one of the 4 big Roman basilicas.
Initially the Jubilee was taking place once every 100 years. Nowadays it takes place every 25 years. In the same way, initially, to benefit from the plenary indulgence, it was necessary to visit all the four big basilicas, and that is: St. John in Lateran, the mother of all the churches of the world, St. Mary Major, built in 352 after the apparition of the Madonna, the Basilica of San Pietro, the biggest church of Christianity, and San Paolo out of the walls, consecrated in 324 and unfortunately destroyed by the fire in 1823, to be then rebuilt on the same basement and consecrated in 1854 by Pope Pio IX.
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