LATERAN PALACE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Lateran Palace

... and the ruins of pagan Rome had no power to move his heart, preoccupied as it was with horror at the monstrous wickedness which made desolate the very sanctuary of God. When he ascended on his knees the famous Scala Santa, the holy staircase near the Lateran Palace—supposed to have belonged to Pilate's house in Jerusalem, down whose marble steps our Saviour walked, wearing the crown of thorns and the emblems of mock royalty which the soldiers had put upon him—he seemed to hear a voice whispering to him the ...

— Roman Mosaics - Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood • Hugh Macmillan