Vatican City Dog Names

Introduction

Vatican City is an independent city-state within the city of Rome, capital of Italy, and also the smallest country in the world. It is a sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the pope, the head of the Catholic church. Vatican City is the home to many cultural sites and numerous, priceless works of art. Some of the most important sites are St. Peter’s Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the museums of Vatican where many masterpieces are stored, such as Giotto’s Stefaneschi Triptych, Raphael’s Madonna of Foligno, Leonardo da Vinci’s St. Jerome in the Wilderness, and Caravaggio’s Entombment.

Vatican City Dog Names in Pop Culture

Featured Famous Dog with a Vatican City Name

The Jennings Dog

Many dogs throughout history have earned their own statues, paintings, and movies. Many of them are celebrities in their hometowns, starred in fabulous movies, and have their faces immortalized in paintings and literary works of art. One of these famous dogs who entered into the world of art is the famous Jennings Dog.

Jennings Dog is a Roman sculpture of a dog who got his name after his first owner, Henry Constantine Jennings, an antiquarian and the collector who acquired the statue and became famous for it. The Jennings Dog statue originates from the 2^nd century AD, and it is a Roman copy of the Hellenistic bronze statue. The original statue probably dates back to 2^nd century BC, which is considerably older than the reproduction. Jennings Dog statue is 1.05 meters high, which translates to three feet and five inches, and it is the only figure of an animal that survived from the Antique times.

The British Museum identified the Jennings to be of the Molossian breed, which is an ancient breed of dog from Europe. A Molossian hound is the ancestor of the Mastiff-type dogs of today, which only shows how old and relevant the Jennings is.

Jennings was discovered near the ancient Lanuvium where the imperial villa of Antonius Pius was located, at Monte Cagnuolo. The first known owner of the statue was the antiquities dealer, sculptor, and restorer Bartolomeo Cavaceppi when Henry Constantine Jennings spotted it in the pile of rubble in his workshop in Rome and bought it off him. Henry brought Jennings back to Britain, and it instantly became famous. Horace Walpole, an Earl of Orford, writer, historian, and a man of letters praised the sculpture and found it exceptionally beautiful and valuable.

As for Jennings’ origins, historians are conflicted. Some consider that he came from Plutarch’s story of Alcibiades who cut the tail of a big handsome dog so it could invoke pity from the Athenians. Henry considers this to be his origin story, as Jennings also has a docked tail.

Henry sold the Jennings Dog to pay off his gambling debts in 1778, and the sculpture was later sold to Rt Hon Charles Duncombe, and it stood in his entrance hall for 150 years! Finally, Charles Anthony Peter Duncombe, his descendant, sold the Jennings to The British Museum where it still stands on a permanent display.

Vatican City Dog Name Considerations

If at any case you run out of ideas for your doggo’s new moniker, look no closer than the Vatican City. It is home to numerous works of art and has always been the home of the pope, so names are not in the scarcity here. Starting with the artists whose masterpieces adorn the walls of the Vatican Museums, consider the name Michelangelo, a master whose works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel are talked about all over the world, and it is one of the most stunning pieces of art ever created. Another fantastic name is Filippo, after Filippo Lippi, an Italian painter whose painting Marsuppini Coronation is housed in Pinacoteca Vaticana.

Some of the other artists whose works are displayed as a part of the Collection of Modern Religious Art in the Vatican are Paul Klee, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, and Giorgio de Chirico, whose names can become your dog’s, and will surely be a great conversation starter in the dog park. If you are running out of ideas, look at the painting Pieta, and name your doggo either Pieta or Giovanni, after Giovanni Bellini who created it, or go for Madonna, after the painting Madonna of Foligno created by Raphael.

Male Vatican City Dog Names

Votes	Name	Vote
0	Peter Saint Peter was the apostle of Jesus and the first Bishop of Rome appointed by Christ
0	Linus St Linus, also known as Papa Linus is the first pope, from 54-58 and 66-69
0	Clement St Clement I was the fourth pope who is also a saint in Eastern Christianity
0	Alexander St Alexander was the first pope in the 2nd century
0	Sixtus St Sixtus I, also known as Papa Xystus, was the 2nd pope in the 2nd century
0	Pius St Pius I, born in Aquileia was the 10th pope and a martyr
0	Victor St Victor I, born in Africa, was a converted Berber and the 14th pope
0	Callixtus St Callixtus I was the first pope in the 3rd century and the 16th pope overall
0	Urban St Urban I, also known as Papa Urbanus, was the 17th pope and a saint
0	Fabian St Fabian, also known as Papa Fabianus, was the 20th pope who divided Rome into seven districts
0	Marcellus St Marcellus I, born in Rome and later banished from it, was the first pope in the 4th century
0	Innocent St Innocent I, also known as Papa Innocentius, was the first pope in the 5th century
0	Leo St Leo I, also known as Leo the Great, was the 45th pope
0	Anastasius Anastasius II was the 50th pope who tried to end Acacian schism
0	Hormisdas St Hormisdas, born in Frosino, was the first pope in the 5th century
0	John John II was the first pope not to use his birth name, Mercurius
0	Gregory St Gregory I, also known as Gregory the Great was the last imperial Roman Pope
0	Sabinian Sabinian, born in Blera, was the first pope of the Byzantine Empire
0	Theodore Theodore I was a Greek pope and the last pope from Palestine
0	Constantine Constantine was the 88th pope, born in Syria and last one to visit Greece until John Paul II
0	Stephen Stephen II was the 92nd pope, also known as Papa Stephanus
0	Adrian Adrian I, also known as Papa Hadrianus, was the 95th pope
0	Paschal St Paschal I was the 98th pope who found the body of Saint Cecilia
0	Benedict Benedict IV was the first pope in the 10th century and the 117th pope
0	Sylvester Sylvester III was considered an Anti-Pope whose election validity is questioned
0	John Paul St John Paul II, born Karol Jozef Wojtyla was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI, last pope of the 2nd millennium
0	Francis Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the current pope, an Argentinian, and the first pope born outside of Europe since Gregory III
0	Lando Pope Lando was the 121st pope, the sixth pope in the 10th century
0	Martinian Martinian was a Christian martyr of ancient Rome, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica
0	Processus Processus was a Christian martyr of ancient Rome, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica

Female Vatican City Dog Names

Votes	Name	Vote
0	Maria Saint Maria Goretti was a virgin martyr of the Catholic church, one of the youngest canonized saints, only 11
0	Matilda Matilda di Canossa was the first woman to be buried in St. Peter’s Basilica
0	Christina Christina of Sweden, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, was the queen of Sweden
0	Charlotte Queen Charlotte of Cyprus, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, was the queen of Cyprus, Jerusalem, and Armenia
0	Agnesina Agnesina Colonna Caetani, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, was a noblewoman and wife of General Onorato Caetani
0	Clementina Maria Clementina Sobieska, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, was the wife of Prince James Stuart of England
0	Petronilla Saint Petronilla, buried in St. Peter’s Basilica, is a virgin martyr and a saint
0	Helena Saint Helena was the Empress of the Roman Empire and mother of Constantine the Great
0	Liberata Saint Liberata is a saint, a holy virgin, and a martyr
0	Margaret Saint Margaret of Fontana was the sister of the Third Order and a saint
0	Oliva Oliva of Brescia is a saint martyred under Hadrian
0	Victoria Saint Victoria is a venerated martyr and saint in the Catholic church
0	Anatolia Saint Anatolia is a venerated martyr and saint in the Catholic church
0	Audax Saint Audax is a venerated martyr and saint in the Catholic church
0	Veridiana Saint Veridiana is an Italian saint, canonized by Pope Clement VII
0	Trofimena Trofimena is a saint canonized in the Catholic church
0	Tatiana Saint Tatiana of Rome was a Christian martyr and a deaconess in early Christianity
0	Sperandia Sperandia is a saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church
0	Pudentiana Pudentiana is a Christian saint and the martyress from the 2nd century
0	Philomena Saint Philomena was a consecrated virgin who died when she was only 13
0	Plautilla Plautilla was a Roman widow baptized by Saint Peter and later became a saint
0	Angela Angela of Foligno was a Franciscan tertiary, later a mystic and a saint
0	Aurea Saint Aurea of Ostia is a saint, a genuine martyr, and the patron saint of Ostia
0	Josephine Josephine Margaret Bakhita was a Sudanese-Italian sister, a former slave, and a saint
0	Clelia Saint Clelia Barbieri was the founder of the Little Sisters of the Mother of Sorrows, later venerated and canonized
0	Bibiana Saint Bibiana, also known as Viviana, is a Roman martyr and virgin
0	Bona Bona of Pisa was a Third order member of the Augustinian nuns, patron saint of travelers
0	Virginia Virginia Centurione Bracelli was a saint, canonized in 2003
0	Benedetta Saint Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was the founder of Benedictine Sisters of Providence
0	Catherine Saint Catherine of Siena was a theologian and Scholastic philosopher