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The story
Story · Saint John at the Latin Gate
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You're standing at San Giovanni a Porta Latina, an early Christian church right by the Porta Latina, one of the gates in Rome's Aurelian Wall. Start with the little square in front of the church. That stone well-head dates from the eighth century. Walk around it. Running along the rim is a Latin line from Isaiah: all you who are thirsty, come to the water. And the stone-carver proudly signed his work too: Ego Stefanus, I am Stephen.
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