Churches and shrines in Vatican City that keep relics of saints and offer them for veneration.
7 places
St. Peter's Basilica, Gregorian Chapel
His relics were the first saint's relics laid in the new basilica, in 1580, and are kept inside the altar of the Gregorian Chapel. In 2004 a large part was given to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.
St. Peter's Basilica, Choir Chapel
His relics were moved into the altar of the Choir Chapel, off the left aisle, in 1626. In 2004 Pope John Paul II gave a large part of them to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. The rest remain in the altar.
St. Peter's Basilica, Chapel of St. Sebastian
His mortal remains were entombed beneath the altar of the Chapel of St. Sebastian in 2011.
St. Peter's Basilica, Altar of St. Jerome
His body rests in a crystal urn beneath the Altar of St. Jerome, at the end of the central nave on the right. It was placed there in 2001, the year of his beatification, dressed in the everyday white papal cassock.
St. Peter's Basilica
The tomb of St. Peter is beneath the main altar of St. Peter's Basilica.
St. Peter's Basilica, Altar of the Chair
Bernini's gilded bronze throne in the apse, completed in 1666, encloses an ancient wooden chair traditionally held to be the episcopal throne of St. Peter. On the feast of the Chair, February 22, the monument is lit with more than a hundred candles.
St. Peter's Basilica, Chapel of the Presentation
His body rests in a double crystal urn with a bronze top in the Chapel of the Presentation of the Virgin. In October 2023 it was taken to the Veneto for a pilgrimage.
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