Saint Bowery's-without-his-Walls

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  • St Paul's Outside the Walls: (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Paolo fuori le Mura) one of Rome's four ancient major basilicas or papal basilicas. It founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I over the burial place of Saint Paul. Tehname derives form teh fact taht it it lay outside the Aurelian Walls. In 1823 a fire resulted in the almost total destruction of the basilica which, alone of all the churches of Rome, had preserved its primitive character for 1435 years. It was re-opened in 1840, and reconsecrated 1855.
  • Bowery: a street and a small neighborhood in one of the oldest parts of New York City
  • bowery: sheltered by trees; leafy; shady
  • St Nicholas-without-the-City-Walls: an Anglican church and parish in Dublin, an old section of the city