Editing Pope Paschal I (section)

===Construction projects===
Paschal gave shelter to exiled monks from the [[Byzantine Empire]] who had fled persecution for their opposition to [[Byzantine iconoclasm|iconoclasm]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saint Paschal I {{!}} pope|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paschal-I|access-date=2021-06-01|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> He both offered the exiled Byzantine mosaic artists work decorating churches in Rome<ref name=Kelly1/> and wrote to Louis the Pious<ref>Goodson, 2010, p. 12.</ref> and the Byzantine emperor [[Leo the Armenian]] in support of those who opposed iconoclasm.<ref name="O'Brien Lives"/>

Paschal rebuilt three basilicas of Rome:  [[Santa Prassede]], [[Santa Maria in Domnica]], and [[Santa Cecilia in Trastevere]].<ref>Goodson, 2010, p. 3.</ref> These churches contain mosaics with lifelike portraits of Paschal.<ref name="O'Brien Lives"/> Paschal is credited with finding the body of [[Saint Cecilia]] in the [[Catacomb of Callixtus]] and translating it to the rebuild the basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. Paschal also undertook significant renovations on [[Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore]].<ref>Goodson, 2010, p.4.</ref> In addition, Paschal  added two oratories to [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]], SS. Processus et Martinianus and SS. Xistus et Fabianus, which did not survive the 16th century renovation of St. Peter's.<ref>Goodson, 2010, pp. 3-4.</ref>

Paschal is also sometimes credited with the renovation of [[Santo Stefano del Cacco]] in early modern sources, but this renovation was actually undertaken by [[Pope Paschal II]].<ref>Goodson, 2010, p. 5 n.7.</ref>

According to Goodson, Paschal "used church-building to express the authority of the papacy as an independent state."<ref name="g14">Goodson, 2010, p. 14.</ref>