欧洲回来,每有朋友们问我到了多少国家?我数来数去总会少一个,那就是梵蒂冈。在我心中,小小的梵蒂冈只是位于罗马西北角的一个教堂加一个博物馆,怎么能算作一个国家呢?梵蒂冈,拉丁语中意为“先知之地”。早在公元4世纪,罗马教宗康斯坦丁就在罗马城西北角耶稣门徒圣彼得殉难处建立了康斯坦丁大教堂以示纪念;到了15至16世纪,康斯坦丁大教 When Europe came back, each friend asked me how many countries I arrived in? I counted one to less than one, and that was the Vatican. In my mind, the little Vatican is just a church located in the northwestern corner of Rome plus a museum. How can one count as a country? The Vatican means “the land of prophets” in Latin. As far back as the 4th century AD, Constantine, the Pope of Rome, set up the Constantine Cathedral at the Martyrdom of St. Peter, the disciple of Jesus in the northwestern corner of Rome, to commemorate the cemetery. In the 15th to 16th centuries, Constantine