St. Peter's Basilica
Church in Vatican City
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| 2025 | Vatican collaborated with Microsoft to create an interactive version of St. Peter's Basilica in the video game Minecraft, titled 'Peter is Here', developed as part of the 2025 Jubilee to engage young audiences. |
| 2024 | Vatican partnered with Microsoft to create an interactive 3D model of St. Peter's Basilica using over 400,000 high-resolution drone photographs, generating the model with artificial intelligence. |
| January 5 2023 | Pope Benedict XVI was interred in St. Peter's Basilica, marking the most recent burial in the basilica's extensive tomb collection. |
| February 20 2021 | Mauro Gambetti became the Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, succeeding Angelo Comastri |
| 2020 |
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A report was released detailing the handling of sexual misconduct complaints against Theodore McCarrick, which prompted some to call for John Paul II's sainthood to be revoked.
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| September 2020 |
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Poland unveiled a sculpture of John Paul II outside the National Museum in Warsaw, depicting him holding a meteorite. In the same month, a relic containing his blood was stolen from the Spoleto Cathedral in Italy.
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| May 7 2020 |
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The Holy See approved opening the diocesan phase of the beatification cause for Pope John Paul II's parents.
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| October 10 2019 |
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The Archdiocese of Kraków and the Polish Episcopal Conference approved nihil obstat for opening the beatification cause of Pope John Paul II's parents, Karol Wojtyła Sr. and Emilia Kaczorowska.
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| July 2012 |
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A Colombian man, Marco Fidel Rojas, testified to being miraculously cured of Parkinson's disease after meeting John Paul II in Rome.
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| May 3 2011 |
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John Paul II's remains were interred in the marble altar in Pier Paolo Cristofari Chapel of St. Sebastian, in a more prominent location to allow more pilgrims to view his memorial.
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| May 2 2011 | Pope John Paul II's remains were placed beneath the altar in the second chapel. |
| May 1 2011 |
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John Paul II was beatified in a mass at St. Peter's Square.
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| April 29 2011 |
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John Paul II's coffin was disinterred from the grotto beneath St. Peter's Basilica in preparation for his beatification.
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| April 8 2011 | Pope Innocent XI's remains were moved from the second chapel to the Altar of the Transfiguration. |
| January 14 2011 |
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The Vatican confirmed the miracle involving Sister Marie Simon-Pierre and announced John Paul II's beatification would occur on May 1st.
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