Pope Alexander VI the "portico" of St. Peter's and commissioned a marble door. This door lasted until 1618, when another door was installed in the new basilica. In a ceremony similar to today's, Alexander was carried in the "sedia gestatoria" to St. Peter's. He and his assistants, bearing candles, processed to the holy door, as the choir chanted . The Pope knocked on the door three times, workers moved it from the inside, and everyone then crossed the threshold to enter into a period of penance and reconciliation. Thus, Pope Alexander formalized the rite and began a longstanding tradition that is still in
Ekaterina Sedia list. In addition, Sedia was the editor for Jigsaw Nation and the World Fantasy Award-winning "". In addition to writing, she teaches ecology and evolution courses as a professor at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Ekaterina Sedia was born on July 9, 1970 in Moscow, Russia, as Ekaterina Holland. She grew up in Moscow and attended Moscow State University; at 21, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a research assistant at MIT's Department of Brain Cognitive Sciences. She later attended graduate school in New Jersey at Rutgers University, where she received a degree in plant ecology. Sedia