San Clemente al Laterano
The
Basilica of Saint Clement () is a
Latin Catholic minor basilica dedicated to
Pope Clement I located in
Rome,
Italy. Archaeologically speaking, the structure is a three-tiered complex of buildings: (1) the present basilica built just before the year 1100 during the height of the
Middle Ages; (2) beneath the present basilica is a 4th-century basilica that had been converted out of the home of a Roman nobleman, part of which had in the 1st century briefly served as an early church, and the basement of which had in the 2nd century briefly served as a
mithraeum; (3) the home of the Roman nobleman had been built on the foundations of
republican era villa and warehouse that had been destroyed in the
Great Fire of AD 64.
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