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Burned buildings and structures in Italy
Lateran Palace
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Burned buildings and structures in Italy
Episcopal palaces
Episcopal palaces of the Catholic Church
Palaces in Rome
Properties of the Holy See
Rome R. I Monti
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321 In AD 321 Roman Emperor Constantine the Great declared the Christian Church could hold and transmit property. This was the first legal basis for the possessions of the Church of Rome. Subsequently, they were augmented by donations. Constantine himself probably gave the Church the Lateran Palace in Rome. Constantine's gifts formed the historical nucleus for the network of myth that gave rise to the forged document known as the "Donation of Constantine".[1]