{"id":80381,"date":"2020-10-05T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=80381"},"modified":"2020-10-05T21:11:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:11:16","slug":"when-pantheon-became-church","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/when-pantheon-became-church\/","title":{"rendered":"When Pantheon became church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 13, 609, Pope Boniface IV decided to transform the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-architecture\/roman-buildings\/pantheon-in-rome\/\">Pantheon<\/a> into the Church of Santa Maria ad Martyres. Until now, the former temple of all Roman deities, since the fall of the Western <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>, was largely unused. There is, however, a parable related to this event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Medieval <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-art-and-culture\/roman-legends\/\">legend<\/a> says that the mighty dome of the Pantheon was crowned in antiquity with a large <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/big-pine-cone-in-rome\/\">pine cone<\/a>. When Pope Boniface consecrated the Pantheon as a church, the evil spirits (ancient Roman deities) fled the building, and one of them, escaping through the dome, punched a hole (<em>oculus<\/em>), still visible today, and threw a pine cone from the roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":80378,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-80381","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/80381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/80381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=80381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}