Day 3 - Orvieto's Duomo

Afternoon of Day 3, we went inside the glorious cathedral. Inside, the walls are striped much like the outside.

There are two side chapels, and we listened to a lecture by Dr. Skillen in one of them. The inside shows a fresco cycle of the end times and then judgment day, but the ceiling shows Heaven after Judgment Day. Four of the panels show part of the liturgy called the Te Deum Laudamus, which translates, "We praise You, oh Lord." Four of the lines go, "The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee; The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee; the noble army of martyrs praise thee; the holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee." The ceiling over the altar in the chapel showed these lines.