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Saint Peter's tomb is a site under St. Peter's Basilica that includes several graves and a structure said by Vatican authorities to have been built to memorialize the location of Saint Peter's grave. St. Peter's tomb is alleged near the west end of a complex of mausoleums, the Vatican Necropolis, that date between about AD 130 and AD 300. [1]
Originally built in Old Saint Peter's; last papal mausoleum erected in Old St. Peter's; moved to Sant'Andrea della Valle during the reign of Paul V. [63] 1523–1534 Clement VII: Originally buried in a brick tomb in Old Saint Peter's; current tomb is across from that of Leo X, another Medici pope in Santa Maria sopra Minerva [64] 1534–1549 ...
Translated from Old St. Peter's in 1533 to the national church of the Holy Roman Empire [100] 26 November 1523 – 25 September 1534 Clement VII: Nanni di Baccio Bigio: Santa Maria sopra Minerva Originally buried in a brick tomb in Old St. Peter's; tomb is across from that of Leo X, another Medici pope [101] 13 October 1534 – 10 November 1549 ...
Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria) – Saint Mark; Tomb of the Virgin Mary (in Catholic tradition, Mary was assumed to heaven and has no tomb) Abbey of Santa Giustina – Saint Luke (body) St. Vitus Cathedral – Saint Luke (head) Thebes, Greece – Saint Luke (original burial ground; claimed to still hold one rib)
Location of Tomb: Article: Mary: Mother of Jesus: Believed to be in the Kidron Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives or at Ephesus. (Catholic and Orthodox traditions profess that her body was taken into Heaven.) Mary's Tomb, House of the Virgin Mary: Saint Peter: Apostle, first Bishop of Rome and co-founder of the Christian church
Burials at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Pages in category "Burials at St. Peter's Basilica" The following 166 pages are in this category, out of 166 total.
Chronologically, the main locations of destroyed or unknown papal tombs have been: the obscure tombs of the first two centuries of popes near Saint Peter, the repeated waves of translations from the Catacombs of Rome, the demolition of the papal tombs in Old St. Peter's Basilica, and the 1306 and 1361 fires in the Archbasilica of Saint John ...
Bronze statue of Saint Peter by Arnolfo di Cambio, dating to the 13th century. The design was a typical basilica form [10] with the plan and elevation resembling those of Roman basilicas and audience halls, such as the Basilica Ulpia in Trajan's Forum and Constantine's own Aula Palatina at Trier, rather than the design of any Greco-Roman temple. [11]