Lateran

John Lateran, the Campagna, the Appian Way, the Seven Hills, the Baths of Caracalla, the Claudian Aqueduct, the Cloaca Maxima--the eternal bore designed the Eternal City, and unless all men and books do lie, he painted every thing in it!

1929: The Papal State, extinct since 1870, was revived as the State of Vatican City in Rome, as a result of the Lateran Treaty.

The Vatican City became an independent state after the Lateran Treaty, signed on February 11, was ratified by Italy's fascist government.

The Sanctuary of the Holy Stairs, as it is fully known, is just across the Basilica of Saint John Lateran and, according to Catholic Travel Guide, is under the custody of The Passionist Fathers.

| 1929: The 109 acres of the Vatican in Rome was made an independent sovereign state under the Lateran Treaty.

Gert Melville--Johannes Helmrath (eds.), The Fourth Lateran Council.

In October 649, a council of 105 bishops gathered at Rome's Lateran Church and under the leadership of Pope Martin I, it presented 20 canons.

Pope Francis named Vincenzo Buonomo rector of Rome's Pontifical Lateran University, the Vatican announced June 2.

Pope Francis attends a meeting with faithful of the diocese of Rome at Saint John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Italy.

The Vatican City State was founded following the signing of the Lateran Pacts between the Holy See and Italy on February 11th, 1929.