Basilica, the bridge reflects the psychological
shift from secular to sacred that occurs when pilgrims crossed from the busy
streets of Rome over to the churches of the Vatican. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the
famed Italian sculptor, originally designed the bridge's angel sculptures in
the seventeenth century. Though few of the angels standing today were done by
his hand, Bernini's vision for the bridge lives on. Five angel sculptures flank
each side of the bridge, with statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on the
eastern bank. At the base of each sculpture is a line from the Bible in Latin.
The verses inscribed on many of the sculptures are dissimilar to the verses
readers find in today's Bibles, because they are based on an old and superseded
scripture translation called the Latin Vulgate…
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