The oldest place of Christian worship in Rome - Santa Pudenziana (Guided tour 4K)

[@davidh9844]

I have been traveling to Rome for decades, and have an interest in early Christianity. How have I never heard of this place, especially with its being located so close to Termini??? Truly, the most incredible part of Rome is that there is just so much there that you can't see it all. Next trip...

[@paullewis2413]

Amazing city, perhaps the most incredible on Earth, suffering enormously from the army of Instagram clones, aka mass tourism. 😡 .😩

[@kenboydart]

Yes, it is very close to the termini and also close to Santa Maria Maggiore. I have seen this church but not been inside. Shame on me. I will correct that in the future.

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

You havee not heard of it because the Catholic Chirch does not want it remembered that Christianity was taken to Rome by The British royal line of that time nor that St Peter was not the first Bishop of Rome but Linus,son of the Welsh war leader and King, Caradoc. The Catholics employ the fantasy that Peter was the first Bishop of Rome. They would much rather tourists spend all their money in the Vatican than visit this little church. It stands on the site of the former British Palace, home of the freed Caradoc and his early Christian family, who held the very first Christian services there. Linus, son of Caradoc, was named by St Paul as the very first Bishop of Rome.

[@albertoclaudiocantarutti6490]

Alora tu parli italiano

[@marcelroy6034]

Same here, surprisingly never heard of it

[@longislandfanvictor3812]

I was in this church on the morning of July 2, 2023 and prayed there. We were in a hotel nearby and were heading to Palermo soon so I had an hour or so to walk the area on that hot Sunday morning. I thought it seemed more ancient than early Renaissance. Your video just confirmed that. Seeing it in your video makes me think of the Swallows flying over then at the end of the video I can hear them. Thank you for bringing me back to a time and place in my life last year. I am so glad I prayed there. Could not make the mass due to time constraints that day but still prayed and lit a candle.

[@josephblake4135]

Having visited Rome eight different visits since I was 11 in 1980, absolutely incredible I have never been here. A future MUST VISIT and pray in the future. Rome inspires again and again.

[@josesergioacerbi9280]

Congratulations for your beautiful work! From Brazil! 🇧🇷🇮🇹

[@RighteousReverendDynamite]

Very nice. It looks peaceful. What a long parade of brave Christians, martyrs, and history has passed by and through this holy place. Happy Pentecost!

[@didierroux1547]

Well done ! for having resurrected in our failing memories this ancient holy place of Christian pilgrimage.

[@AugustinianThomist]

than you!

[@eugeniomcaleca]

Im roman. Thank you for showing all this. It’s clear that you know the city. For us those places are also places of our family memory and old tratitions that are now, unfortunately, lost. Thank your, sir.

[@AugustinianThomist]

Thank you very much!

[@scoon2117]

Man I would love to have been born there! Don't take it for granted! Get out and explore.

[@theodogeo]

I have visited the church, I knew about it and I wanted to see the mosaic on the apse. The caretaker was surprised because as he told me very rarely receive visitors especially foreigners. He helped me around and gave me as gift some nice postcards with the mosaic.

[@carmenpdl8918]

I am Italian and I am 62 y.o now and being living in Rome since 1973. I swear I never visited this place in my life

[@didierroux1547]

Mai troppo tardi per farlo !

[@donde2k]

I very much appreciated the historical description of the apse and of the clothing & gesture of Christ - really elucidates the ROMAN in Roman Catholicism.

[@arbitrarium7336]

My uncle visited this church in 1993 and he got healed from a sore back by some angels, so he said.

[@pedromendes1703]

A masseuse could do it just as well but I guess the angels come cheaper

[@arbitrarium7336]

@@pedromendes1703 And the devine angelic healing has the grace and blessings of the Lord.😇

[@toddcassidy5331]

@@pedromendes1703As long as he got a happy ending either way

[@MrVorpalsword]

Nuns were they?

[@stephenperretti8847]

You are a cynical and devious person. Shame on you.

[@edoggamus]

My new favorite channel.

[@KD-di2ql]

Nice, where my sister got married about 10 years ago 😃👍🏻

[@drew6194]

What a wonderful setting for a wedding.

[@scoon2117]

You guys really have it good living out there. Dont take it for granted and take care of it.

[@erhardbrunner7202]

many thanks for this information! Next time, I happen to be in Rome, I must see that church.

[@JNeil1975]

Incredible history!!

[@EricJMJ]

Thank you very much. Our family has two cardinals in the tree. One was Victor general for five popes in the 1600s. God bless Viva Cristo Rey Salve Regina! We have the same surname and I don't want to playset

[@AugustinianThomist]

Wow that is an amazing lineage you have, thanks for watching!

[@49558201]

hold the camera still , please .

[@aokiaoki4238]

"The authenticity of Pudentiana has been questioned"

[@Andrew-gn9qp]

Saint Pudentiana is patroness of the Philippines, thus this was made into the Filipino basilica.

[@gvbrandolini]

Interessante

[@canemcave]

almost 2000 years old, still perfectly kept

[@craigbhill]

Sorry, but that's the stuff of bull puckey.

[@canemcave]

@@craigbhill ??

[@Lover-ji3je]

Filipino Basilica right

[@AugustinianThomist]

Correct, it is a church of Rome's Filipino community

[@wordscapes5690]

Why the robot voice?

[@stberchmans]

Very good narration, shaky camera. Overall interesting!

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

why the use of a camera deforming the architectural image of this venerable monument ?

[@lettybastien4624]

Good eye, I thought it was the LSD

[@davidgifford8112]

Fisheye lens or wide angle phone, dreadful filming and editing, doesn’t match the commentary.

[@sandfly60]

Considering I wouldn't get to see it any other way, I'm grateful.

[@MrVorpalsword]

thats how your eyes would see it, its perspective but you probably never noticed how every straight thing you ever saw was actually curved in your brain.

[@AnibalDMasso]

Please, which text to voice software do you use?

[@AugustinianThomist]

elevenlabs.io/

[@AnibalDMasso]

@@AugustinianThomist thanks a lot

[@arturovaldes546]

There was a well and the two sister Saints put the dead bodies of the martyrs . On the floor of the Church , there is piece of marble on the floor showing spot . Its outside the Chapel of Caetani by the aisle. THE PILGRIMS GUIDE TO ROME PRINCIPAL CHURCHES , by Joseph Tylenda , Angelus Press. very good book .

[@dennisdolan7250]

St Giovanni et Paulo ? Thought that was earliest house church

[@marcelroy6034]

However, oldest place of worship ? Wouldn’t that be rather the Pantheon, or Sant’Agnese or St Peter?

[@drew6194]

St. Peter's is nearly modern in comparison.

[@marcelroy6034]

@@drew6194 not the foundation levels, crypt etc. Place of worship relates to the location, not the final building structure.

[@AECJ1]

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[@marchellabrahams]

It was constructed on the remains of a building even older than second century. The crypt is all that remains of the Palatium Britannicum, a kind of British Embassy. Caradoc, High King of Britain, was held prisoner at the Palatium Britannicum for seven years in A.D.50-57 with his wife and family. One of his daughters, Gwladys, was made the ward of Claudius, and took his name in the feminine form, Claudia. Pudenziana was her daughter, who with her sister Praxades (the Basilica di Santa Prassede is not far away), buried with their own hands the bones of the first British Christian Martyrs, 2,000 of them, whom Nero crucified along either side of the Appian Way in c. A.D. 60. Their uncle Linus, Caradoc's son, was first Bishop of Rome, not the Apostle Peter, who was inserted into the records two hundred years later to bolster the brand new Roman Catholic church. These people are all attested not only in the Bible but also in the British Histories as well as the Roman Catholic Martyrology. There is a vast amount of our true history which has been swept under the carpet to foster Constantine's Roman Catholic invention. And incidentally, Islam was created by the Roman Catholic church some time after Augustine of Hippo marshalled a large army of young North African men to protect Jerusalem for Roman Catholicism. That worked out well, didn't it? christianitybeliefs.org/islam-in-bible-prophecy/why-islam-was-created/

[@thomaswayneward]

Very interesting. It is hard for me to find out what happened in Rome at the beginning of the Christian Era. I knew from my studies that the Roman Catholic Church did not establish Christianity in Rome, first. The simple reason I know that is the absence of early history in Rome from the RCC.

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

Roman catholicism didnt exist before the XIth century schism. So, a IVth century christian teologian invented Islam two centuries before Islam appeared?

[@enzocompanbadillo5365]

@@thomaswayneward Thats because Roman Catholicism wasnt even a thing before the XIth century. It could be said that before those times people both in the Western and Eastern parts of the roman empire were what we would call today "orthodox christians". For centuries Constantinople was more important to Christendom than Rome. Antioch (a rather small city in the Middle East) was the place in which the "followers of the way" were called "christians" by the first time. In those days, it used to be part of the Roman Empire.

[@marchellabrahams]

@@thomaswayneward Very few people know that it was the British who christianised Rome so early after the Crucifixion, but it is attested in Rome's own records. They just keep very quiet about it.

[@paolomacedone453]

Probably the church was built upon the DOMUS of the senator Pudente, where a place of cult was surely located. His daughters Pudentiana and Prassede were martyrs. Prassede has her own church not too far from there.

[@thomaswayneward]

You mean Christianity, of course.

[@euroschmau]

I threw my back out in this church half way through my two week vacation in Rome, it had been bothering me all day but here it just exploded. I wish I had better memories of this beautiful space other than me limping out in pain.

[@juliocesarlopez7969]

The information is good, but the video is terrible.

[@vincentmancini6279]

I have to agree. Terrible video. Sad

[@nielsnijmegen2917]

But it brings you as a spectator very close to the place, so not so bad in that respect!

[@catherinelincoln9830]

Yes, the video doesn’t correspond to the narrative and is also unpleasantly wbobbly…😔

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

I’m astonished that you failed to mention that not only is this site the oldest place of. Christian worship in Rome but it was very likely the birthplace of Christianity in Rome and has specific links with ancient British and Welsh history. This was the site of the British Palace, where King Caradoc, captured war leader of the Welsh Silures against the invading Romans, was brought with his family after he won his freedom by impressing the Senate with his speech. Not only did they not kill him and his family in the newly built Coliseum, but they granted them freedom in a substantial home on this site. The Welsh were gnostic Christians from very early, as early as 37 AD, and Caradoc’s family were Christians when they arrived in Rome. They held clandestine meetings in their home and it is thought that St Paul himself was a visitor there. Indeed, Linus, the son of Caradoc, was the first Bishop of Rome, not St Peter. Peter’s elevation and displacement of Linus, came centuries later because the Catholic Church recognised him as a leading disciple of Christ. It is even very doubtful that Peter visited Rome before Linus was made its first Bishop. So there is a very good case that Britain, or Wales, took Christianity to Rome, and not Rome taking Christianity to Britain (or rather, the part we now call England) under St Augustine centuries later, when he converted the heathen Saxons. St Augustine was astonished to find on arrival that the Welsh had been Christian for centuries. Indeed, Llandaff Cathedral had a bishop long before York or even London. The Welsh at first refused to join the Catholic Church, and maintained their independence until the Synod of Whitby in 664. Caradoc had been captured after nine years of leading the Silures in battle after battle and there is good reason to believe that an entire Legion was defeated in one of these. He was betrayed to the Romans by Cartismandua, Queen of the Brigantes tribe in what is now the Midlands. The Silures carried on their fight against Rome for another twenty years and some historians believe they were never entirely defeated because the Romans built them the impressive walled town of Caerwent to run as a Civitas and they maintained their royal line down to Arthrwys,or Arthur (yes, the real one) who was King of Gwent and Glamorgan in the late 500s. The Charters of Llandaff Cathedral name him as both King Arthrwys AND King Arthur many times in association with land grants to the early Church in Wales. Tragically, this early Welsh King has been turned into a myth or legend by later Romance writers in England and France adding on things such as a round table and holy grail etc etc, muddying the waters. Nor is there really any doubt about the site of his famous Battle of Mount Badon. It was at Mynydd Baedan near Bridgend, south Wales, after the Saxons landed by ship on the Glamorgan coast. There are impressive defensive ditches still visible up there and huge grave mounds called the Mynwent y Milwyr, the Cemetery of the Soldiers. And the space where the battle of Baedan took place is called, aptly enough, the Maescadlawr, the battlefield.

[@danielcostello1947]

A little detail would be nice!

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

@@danielcostello1947 Hey Daniel, I love your sense of irony/ sarcasm. This was my short form answer! I have visited this church but unfortunately it was closed. I’m going to Rome again this weekend and will try again.

[@jessicamalley6201]

So glad to see that someone else has read of the history you are sharing.

[@ledatufarulo7316]

Legends.... And fantasy. 😆😆😆

[@petrovonoccymro9063]

@@ledatufarulo7316 ignorance…My facts are facts and few Catholic scholars now disagree that Linus was the first Bishop of Rome. What happened to Caradoc in Rome and his family is a matter of ancient written record. His speech to the Senate was recorded by Tacitus, the historian, almost word for word. The facts about Arthrwys are easily provable from cross referenced family trees of the Welsh kings and Church records. The Glamorgan royal line pre Norman is a matter of record, easily verifiable from the written records of South Wales. Again, they cross ref through many sources. The fact that most English people are totally ignorant about them should make them question the nonsense propagated by those who have chosen to alter the accepted versions for political and religious and state ends. St Paul himself names Linus as the very first Bishop of Rome. I think we can accept his testimony, rather than a trite comment from an ignoramus.

[@giuseppecosta8930]

Manca la traduzione in italiano sui commenti

[@jessicamalley6201]

So glad to see that someone else has discovered this historical narrative. I find most current Christian teaching totally ignore the English roots of Christianity.

[@thomaswayneward]

Maybe because a lot of Christian historical teachings are from the Roman Catholic Church. Westerners don't realize how much Rome is responsible for historic teaching. Most Americans don't even know there is an Eastern Church, or the Eastern Church history, even though it is much more important than Roman history.

[@MrVorpalsword]

"English roots of Christianity" well we invented everything else, football, tennis, steam engines - can't say I'm surprised.

[@John-qd5of]

​@MrVorpalsword I think it's a typo. However, the "English roots of Christianity" may refer to the legend of Joseph of Arimathea coming to Ancient Brita in to preach. Apparently he planted a hawthorn staff in the ground and it blossomed. Also, the hymn "Jerusalem" sings of Christ visiting England.

[@MrVorpalsword]

@@John-qd5of yes I suppose its an easy spoonerism 'the roots of English Christianity?' that said, I forget the context. Yes, the thorn bush is at Glastonbury isn't it?

[@donde2k]

How did you come up with “English roots of Christianity” from this video about the Roman roots of Roman Catholicism?? Oh well, doesn’t matter. England -Britain as a whole, really- has long since abandoned its Christian heritage. Now the whole place is overrun with bloody eye-slamists and soon every church -from the smallest Kirk to the great St Paul’s- will be sporting swords&stars and minarets and “Allaaaaaahoooowhaaaaaaaaaaa!” and all that rubbish. Congratulations, bloody Darwinist sods!

[@christopherstinnett1234]

dreadfully BAD videography!

[@lolzcbfkd]

jingle balls

[@johnvonundzu2170]

The AI narration voice is horrible - made me turn it off.

[@gerhardrohne2261]

sorry your camerawork is dreadfull and against any content...

[@craigbhill]

"Oldest" my ass. The vaunted mosaic, which holds not even a candle to anything in Dark Age Ravenna Xian imagery, is by its 6th or 7th century depiction of Chrestos [stolen from Apollo] Iesous ["Son of ZEUS" to appeal to Greek beliefers in God the Father] gives Iesous his philosopher look of long-haired bearded stereotype typical of those two centuries, prior to which Iesous first appeared in the Catacombs of Roman early 2nd century beliefers as a young strawberry blond man in above the knees Greek tunic, beardless and holding a MAGICIAN'S WAND signifying his works of miracles]. Skip the dogmatic lies about this late Dark Age church which stinks typically of an old man's closet and hie thee to Ravenna for 14 small and magnificent buildings with accurately datable early Dark Age mosaics, the single greatest collection of Xian art in Italy.

[@georgen9755]

Court

[@azadduhoki3590]

These are the buildings of ancient civilizations It has nothing to do with the Crusader priestly religion Wake up!

[@basicinfo8786]

This place doesn't look like 2th century its clickbait

[@aokiaoki4238]

Its a fraud

[@nycbigbear]

Listen carefully. It was built on top of a 2nd century house which has been used as a worship before the first church was built with parts of a Roman Bathhouse. Like many ancient churches it was rebuilt many times. The basic part of the church is old, but frequently redecorated

[@aokiaoki4238]

@@nycbigbear Then why they call it a 2th century ad Church ?

[@OneEpicEric]

The palace of the Britons

[@LcWash]

this place is creepy , so dark and empty....

[@starcrib]

☄️What a shame- it should be a pagan temple Again. 🌬

[@charlesdavis9937]

Catholic, not Christian.

[@______9322]

So.....catholics are not christian? Stop that!

[@thomaswayneward]

LOL

[@donhaddix3770]

is Catholicism biblical? NO!

[@v.britton4445]

I would rather see that than the big tourist attractions 🩷