San Pietro in Vincoli Church in Rome

 

It was built so as to contain St. Peter’s chains. Here there is the Famous Moses of Michelangelo.

Dominating the tomb of Pope Julius II is Michelangelo's imposing Moses. The church is more revered by Catholics for containing the chains believed to have shackled Saint Peter both in Jerusalem and in the Mamertine Prison.

There are several relics of Peter in Rome - footprints in Santa Francesca Romana, a head print, where he butted the ground as he was thrown into the Mamertine Prison, and his head itself in San Giovanni in Laterano - but the chains are the most venerated of all, dis­played here in a glass case over the altar.

They are paraded around the city every 1st August.

  

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