Basilica Minor of San Pietro in Vincoli

Basilica Minor of San Pietro in Vincoli (St Peter in Chains)

The main ceiling fresco in the nave of the church is The Miracle of the Chains by Giovanni Battista Parodi (1706). It shows Pope John XII using the chains to exorcise a demon from the court of German Emperor Otto I.

Basilica Minor of San Pietro in Vincoli (St Peter in Chains) in Rome

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