Baroque architecture is the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that

took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and
theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was
characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity.

The Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, or simply St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica
Sancti Petri; Italian:Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), is an Italian
Renaissance church in Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture[2] and one of the largest churches
in the world.[3] While it is neither themother church of the Catholic Church nor the cathedral of
the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic shrines. It has been
described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world"[4] and as "the greatest of all churches
of Christendom".[2][5]

The Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (canonically known as Saint John the Baptist
Parish and colloquially known as Quiapo Church; Spanish: Baslica Menor del Nazareno Negro) is
a prominent Roman Catholic Latin-rite basilica located in the District ofQuiapo in the City of
Manila, Philippines. The basilica is famous home for the shrine of the Black Nazarene, a dark statue
of Jesus Christ many claim to be miraculous. The parish is under the Archdiocese of Manila and its
current rector is Rev. Msgr. Hernando Coronel.