Visit The Vatican - 10 Things That Will SHOCK You About Vatican City
Heading to see the Pope or Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel or the Raphael Rooms? Well here are a few things that may shock a tourist or traveler to the Vatican.
10 Things That May SHOCK Tourist When The Visit The Vatican
1. Its another country
2. The lines to the Vatican Museums are insane long
3. You may actually get to see and hear the Pope on your visit
4. The amazing art collection in the Vatican Museums
5. How many people they fit into the Sistine Chapel
6. How many people take pictures with flash in the Sistine Chapel even though they tell you not to
7. How big St. Peter's Basilica is on the inside
8. How people have rubbed down some of the statues
9. You can climb to the top of St. Peters for a great view of Rome
10. The best mail in Italy for sending postcards is found in the Vatican Post office.
Filmed at Vatican City
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May 12 and 13 and October 12 and 13 are the main celebration days and make for wonderful religious experiences. Also, any day makes for a great trip. Jacinta, Francisco and Lucia's meeting with Mary is located in the small chappel in the courtyard.
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THE SIMPLICITY OF BECOMING ACCEPTED BY GOD IS.
- Not a religion where you work so you could be accepted by God!
Romans 3:24 Being justified FREELY by HIS GRACE through the redemption that is IN CHRIST JESUS:
- It is the GIFT OF GOD!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.
- You are saved from everything that God said would face you otherwise now and forever, simply by believing that Jesus Christ fulfilled all that God needs to see as your salvation! If God sees only Jesus Christ as your salvation, you are covered now and forever!
What must you do to receive this gift? Just believe the gospel!
1 Cor 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS according to the scriptures;
1 Cor 15:4 And that HE WAS BURIED, and THAT HE ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY according to the scriptures:
You can do it the best way you know how. God sees the heart.
You can pray something like this (it is not the prayer that saves but only your faith in to what God said), Lord I believe that Jesus died for my sins and that he rose again from the dead. Please save me like the Bible promises, because of what Jesus did and help me with everything. In Jesus' name I pray this. Amen!
And the Bible says,
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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Fraunces Tavern, NYC February 28, 2017
Fraunces Tavern is located in Southern Manhattan and is where George Washington bid farewell to his troops in 1783.
Renovated historic tavern with a George Washington link offering pub eats & live music on weekends.
Wikipedia article:
Fraunces Tavern is a landmark museum and restaurant in New York City, situated at 54 Pearl Street at the corner of Broad Street. The location played a prominent role in history before, during and after the American Revolution, serving as a headquarters for George Washington, a venue for peace negotiations with the British, and housing federal offices in the Early Republic. It has been owned by Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc. since 1904, which carried out a major conjectural reconstruction, and claim it is Manhattan's oldest surviving building. The museum interprets the building and its history, along with varied exhibitions of art and artifacts.[4] The tavern is a tourist site and a part of the American Whiskey Trail and the New York Freedom Trail.[5][6]
Early history
Pre-Revolution history
New York Mayor Stephanus van Cortlandt built his home in 1671 on the site, but retired to his manor on the Hudson River and gave the property in 1700 to his son-in-law, Etienne Stephen DeLancey, a French Huguenot who had married Van Cortlandt's daughter, Anne. The DeLancey family contended with the Livingston family for leadership of the Province of New York.
DeLancey built the current building as a house in 1719. The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the Dutch Republic and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality.[7] His heirs sold the building in 1762 to Samuel Fraunces who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head.
Before the American Revolution, the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the Sons of Liberty. During the tea crisis caused by the British Parliament's passage of the Tea Act of 1765, the patriots forced a British naval captain who tried to bring tea to New York to give a public apology at the building.[citation needed] The patriots, disguised as American Indians (like those of the subsequent Boston Tea Party), then dumped the ship's tea cargo into New York Harbor.
In 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce was founded by a meeting in the building.[8]
Revolution
In August 1775, Americans took possession of cannons from the artillery battery at the southern point of Manhattan and fired on HMS Asia. The British Royal Navy ship retaliated by firing a 32-gun broadside on the city, sending a cannonball through the roof of the building.
When the war was all but won, the building was the site of British-American Board of Inquiry meetings, which negotiated to ensure to American leaders that no American property (meaning former slaves who were emancipated by the British for their military service) be allowed to leave with British troops. Board members reviewed the evidence and testimonies that were given by freed slaves every Wednesday from April to November, 1783, and British representatives were successful in ensuring that almost all of the loyalist blacks of New York maintained their liberty and could be evacuated with the Redcoats when they left if so desired.[9]
Washington's farewell to his officers
Washington's Farewell to His Officers
Engraving after painting by Alonzo Chappel
Date: December 4, 1783
Location: Fraunces Tavern, Broad and Pearl Streets, New York Town
After British troops evacuated New York on Nov. 25th, the tavern hosted a week later, an elaborate turtle feast dinner on December 4, 1783, in the building's Long Room for U.S. Gen. George Washington where he bade farewell to his officers of the Continental Army by saying [w]ith a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. As he later asked to take each one of his officers by the hand for a personal word.[10][11][12]
Post-Revolution
In January 1785, New York City became the seat of the Confederation Congress, the nation's central government under the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The departments of Foreign Affairs, Finance and War had their offices at Fraunces Tavern.
With the ratification of the United States Constitution in March 1789, the Confederation Congress's departments became federal departments, and New York City became the first official national capital. The inauguration of George Washington as first President of the United States took place in April 1789. Under the July 1789 Residence Act, Congress moved the national capital to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a 10-year period, while the permanent national capital was un