Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St.Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived.

But they were in the church, nevertheless--they were in one of the transepts.

Nearly fifty thousand persons assembled in St.Peter's to hear the publishing of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

It is estimated that the floor of the church affords standing room for--for a large number of people; I have forgotten the exact figures.

But it is no matter--it is near enough.
They have twelve small pillars, in St.Peter's, which came from Solomon's Temple.