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CHURCH ARCHITECTURE - San Giovanni Basilica - ROMAN
San Giovanni Basilica - Ornamental ROMAN STYLE building: arches and flat columns = pier. These churches start the period: CULT OF THE RELICS = churches wanted relics. (In slide 36, Santa Maria Maggiori claims to have Christ's actual manger). The church in this slide (38) claims to have same steps Jesus travelled when he wore crown of thorns.