The excavations under the famous Vatican basilica were ordered by Pius XII in 1941, convinced that the burial and remains of the first Pope in the history of the Church were located there.
Photograph provided by the Vatican Press Office, in 1998, showing a partial view of the interior of the necropolis located in the basement of St. Peter’s Basilica in the VaticanEPA
03/01/2023
Updated at 03:07.
Almost two thousand years after his crucifixion, more than ten years of archaeological excavations in the heart of the Vatican, the discovery that many historians described as “providential”, the subsequent secret transfer of the remains of the supposed saint and two more decades to confirm …
