Tomb of St. John Paul II in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Credit: Juan Andrés Muñoz/ACI Prensa When she left the place, Perales thought to herself: “I’ve gone crazy.

St. John XXIII was also previously buried in the same place, which is fewer than 100 feet from the tomb of St. Peter the Apostle, the Catholic Church’s first Pope.

Vatican City, Apr 12, 2005 / 22:00 pm Early this morning, the Vatican reopened the grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time since the death of Pope John Paul II.

VATICAN CITY - A white marble sarcophagus believed to be the final resting place of St. Paul has been unearthed from beneath the altar of Rome's second-largest basilica after centuries ...

The remains were placed in the former tomb of Benedict’s predecessor, St. John Paul II. John Paul’s remains were moved up to a chapel on the main floor of the basilica following his 2011 ...