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Coming now to the little hall which is beside the hall just described, and which is above the Hall of Spring, in the vaulting, which is adorned with a vast and rich decoration in stucco and gold, in the recess in the centre, there is the Coronation of Pope Paul III, with four spaces that form a cruciform inscription, with these words: PAULUS III FARNESIUS, PONTIFEX MAXIMUS, DEO ET HOMINIBUS APPROBANTIBUS, SACRA TIARA SOLEMNI RITU CORONATUR, ANNO SALUTIS 1534, III NON. NOVEMB.

The fathers, saith Trelcatius, had not only respect to those five words, “For this is my body,” dum eucharistiam fieri dixerunt mystica precc, invocatione nominis divini, solemni benedictione, gratiarum actione. 2.

Of the construction and consecration of this holy place we read in an inscription on marble over the door that leads into the sacristy, in the following words: CUM HOC TEMPLUM MARCO EVANGELISTÆ DICATUM MAGNIFICIS SUMPTIBUS CL. V. COSMI MEDICIS TANDEM ABSOLUTUM ESSET, EUGENIUS QUARTUS ROMANUS PONTIFEX MAXIMA CARDINALIUM, ARCHIEPISCOPORUM, EPISCOPORUM, ALIORUMQUE SACERDOTUM FREQUENTIA COMITATUS, ID CELEBERRIMO EPIPHANIÆ DIE, SOLEMNI MORE SERVATO, CONSECRAVIT. TUM ETIAM QUOTANNIS OMNIBUS, QUI EODEM DIE FESTO ANNUAS STATASQUE CONSECRATIONIS CEREMONIAS CASTE PIEQUE CELEBRARINT VISERINTVE, TEMPORIS LUENDIS PECCATIS SUIS DEBITI SEPTEM ANNOS TOTIDEMQUE QUADRAGESIMAS APOSTOLICA REMISIT AUCTORITATE, A. MCCCCXLII.