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PG · « **on:** January 18, 2018, 06:31:08 PM »

Does anyone know what the meaning of Vatican is?

Nadir · « **Reply #1 on:** January 18, 2018, 07:53:42 PM »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Hill
Topography of ancient Rome[edit]
Vaticanus Mons (or Vaticanus Collis^[6]) was most often a name in Classical Latin for the Janiculum.^[7] Cicero uses the plural form Vaticani Montes in a context that seems to include the modern Vatican Hill as well as the Monte Mario and the Janiculan hill.^[8]
The Vaticanum or Campus Vaticanus was originally a level area between the Vaticanus Mons and the Tiber. During the Republican era, it was an unwholesome site frequented by the destitute.^[9] Caligula and Nero used the area for chariot exercises, as at the Gaianum, and renewal was encouraged by the building of the Circus of Nero, also known as the Circus Vaticanus or simply the Vaticanum. The location of tombs near the Circus Vaticanus is mentioned in a few late sources.^[10]
The Vaticanum was also the site of the Phrygianum, a temple of the Magna Matergoddess Cybele. Although secondary to this deity's main worship on the Palatine Hill, this temple gained such fame in the ancient world that both Lyon, in Gaul, and Mainz, in Germany called their own Magna Mater compounds "Vaticanum" in imitation.^[11]Remnants of this structure were encountered in the Seventeenth Century reconstruction of St. Peter's Square.
Vaticanus Mons came to refer to the modern Vatican Hill as a result of calling the whole area the "Vatican" (Vaticanum). Christian usage of the name was spurred by the martyrdom of St. Peter there.^[12] Beginning in the early 4th century AD, construction began on the Old St. Peter's Basilica^[13] over a cemetery that is the traditional site of St. Peter's tomb. Around this time, the name Vaticanus Mons was established in its modern usage, and the Janiculum hill was distinguished from it as the Ianiculensis Mons.
Another cemetery nearby was opened to the public on 10 October 2006 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Vatican Museums.^[14]

PG · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2018, 07:59:43 PM »

I have heard an interesting meaning. I will give you a hint. The hint is, "the silence of the very old".

PG · « **Reply #3 on:** January 19, 2018, 12:58:54 PM »

St. augustine reveals it in his book city of god. That is where I first learned of the meaning. St. Augustine talks about how the names of the gods coincide with their function. And, in this case, the roman god's name was vaticanus or vagitanus. And, vaticanus was the roman god "who presides over the beginning of first speech aka crying and wailing. Vaticanus was the wail of the baby. With that said, now you possibly know the meaning of vatican. And, it makes me wonder, that it's no wonder women want to be priests.

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