Churches
Many hundreds, probably even thousands, of churches are also named after the various saints hiding under the simple "Giovanni", among them:
- the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome
- the Baptistry of Battistero di San Giovanni (Florence)
- San Giovanni (Siena)
- San Giovanni de Butris in Umbria
- San Giovanni di Dio in Florence
- San Giovanni Battista, two churches in Italy and Switzerland
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Famous quotes containing the word churches:
“People fall out of windows, trees tumble down,
Summer is changed to winter, the young grow old
The air is full of children, statues, roofs
And snow. The theatre is spinning round,
Colliding with deaf-mute churches and optical trains.
The most massive sopranos are singing songs of scales.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)