Built by the knight Fra Giorgio Nibbia in 1612, the walls of the chapel were covered with human skulls, bones and even complete skeletons.

* Fra Filippo Lippi ( altarpiece of the Annunciation in the north transept chapel )

On May 23, 1447 Gozzoli was in Rome with Fra Angelico, called by Pope Eugene IV to carry out the fresco decoration of a chapel in the Vatican Palace.

The monuments found in this chapel are those of grandmasters Fra Adrien de Wignacourt and Fra Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc.

Among the knight buried in this chapel there is Fra Gian Francesco Abela and Fra Flaminio Balbiano.

The only monument in this chapel is that of Fra Annet de Clermont.

In this chapel one can find the monuments of the following grandmasters, Fra Martin de Redin, Fra Raphael Cotoner, Fra Nicolas Cottoner, Fra Ramon Perellos.

The monuments in this chapel are those of grandmasters Fra Antonio Manoel de Vilhena and Fra Manuel Pinto da Fonseca.

Among the contents of the museum there are the Tapestries of Grandmaster Fra Ramon Perellos de Roccaful, paintings of the following Grandmasters Fra Jean de la Cassiere, Fra Nicola Cottoner and Fra Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca, painting which were formerly in the side chapel such as St. George killing the Dragon by Francesco Potenzano.

In 1650, together with the chapel of Our Saviour, Fra Giovanni Bighi erected near the same site a large villa overlooking the entrance of the Grand Harbour.

The fortress incorporates some of the pre-existing southern walls, the pre-existing structures including the keep of Santo Martini, the San Giovanni tower and an ancient basilica which now serves as the fortress chapel. Though the town itself was eventually conquered, the fortress itself was never taken, an admirable feat, considering the size of the Sienese and Florentine forces that besieged Montalcino at varying intervals.

The Pope set no limit to his plans, and achieved much in his short pontificate, always carried through at top speed: the completion of the dome of St. Peter's ; the loggia of Sixtus in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano ; the chapel of the Praesepe in Santa Maria Maggiore ; additions or repairs to the Quirinal, Lateran and Vatican palaces ; the erection of four obelisks, including that in Saint Peter's Square ; the opening of six streets ; the restoration of the aqueduct of Septimius Severus (" Acqua Felice "); the integration of the Leonine City in Rome as XIV rione ( Borgo ).

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

The screen or transenna in marble by Mino da Fiesole, Andrea Bregno, and Giovanni Dalmata divides the chapel into two parts.

The Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini redecorated some of the reconstructed rooms in 1708, including the main staircase and the chapel.

Andrea Gabrieli went there in 1562, and possibly remained in the chapel for a year ; Giovanni Gabrieli also possibly studied with him in the 1570s.

Attractions on the island include the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato ( known for its twelfth century Byzantine mosaic pavement and said to house the bones of the dragon slain by Saint Donatus ), the church of San Pietro Martire with the chapel of the Ballarin family built in 1506 and artworks by Giovanni Bellini, and the Palazzo da Mula.

There is a church dedicated to him in Venice, the Chiesa di San Giovanni Elemosinario, but his relics are preserved in another church, San Giovanni in Bragora in a separate chapel.

After his stay in Hungary, Giovanni Dalmata returned to Traù ( Trogir ) where he left a number of works, most important among those is the statue of St. John the Evangelist in the Orsini chapel in Trogir Cathedral.

The chapel also holds a Madonna by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato.

Among the principal churches to which the rose has been presented are St. Peter's Basilica ( five roses ), Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano ( four roses — according to some, two of the four were given to the basilica proper and two to the chapel called Sancta Sanctorum ), Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ( two roses ), Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima ( two roses ), Santa Maria sopra Minerva ( one rose ), Sant ' Antonio dei Portoghesi ( one rose ), and Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida ( one rose ).

The chapel is a collaboration of outstanding artists of Florence: it was designed by Brunelleschi's associate, Antonio Manetti, and finished after his death by Giovanni Rossellino.

Felice, the elder, was born about 1560, studied under G. M. Nanino and succeeded Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in 1594 as composer to the papal chapel.

In addition to these posts he was maestro di cappella for Duke Giovanni Angelo of Altaemps, at his private chapel, probably concurrently with his other jobs.

Evidently he was favored of the Medici, for they not only hired him for his church job but gave him a post as a singer in the papal chapel in Rome in 1514, immediately after Cardinal Giovanni de ' Medici became Pope Leo X.

In this chapel are buried Cardinal Marzio Ginetti ( died 1671 ) and his nephew, who was also a Cardinal, Giovanni Francesco Ginetti ( died 1691 ).

The castle chapel was decorated with stucco by Giovanni Battista Falconi, whereas Stanisław Lubomirski ( 1538 – 1649 ), who financed the renovation of the castle, also founded twenty sacred objects.

The Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini redecorated some of the reconstructed rooms in 1708, including the main staircase and the chapel.

The Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini redecorated some of the reconstructed rooms in 1708, including the main staircase and the chapel.

His relics are said to be partly in San Giovanni della Pigna, partly in Santa Susanna di Termini and in the chapel of St. Lawrence.

The interior has a chapel of the sacrament by Giovanni Battista Rossi, who also completed the polychrome marble balustrade of the presbytery.

It is home to the Shrine of the Madonna of Canoscio ( Italian: Santuario della Madonna di Canoscio ), atop a hill overlooking the upper valley of the Tiber at 449 m. The church has its origins in a votive chapel dedicated to the Madonna of the Assumption that was built by a certain Giovanni di Jacopo in 1348, for having been spared during the Black Death.

The chapel just to the right of the church's presbytery ( at the south-east corner ) houses the funeral monuments of Pope Gregory XV and his nephew, Cardinal Ludovisi, the church's founder.

The chapel contains a fine painting of the Resurrection in the half dome of the apse, painted by Sebastiano Ricci and his nephew Marco ( who assisted with the painting at the Royal Hospital ) and dates from the end of Queen Anne's reign.

The chapel was restored by Rolle's nephew and heir Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton ( 1863 – 1957 ), and some ancient stained glass roundels from the demolished old Church at Bicton were inserted into the windows of St Clare's Chapel.

His grave in the village was designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis ( Who also designed the village chapel, Capel Moreia ) and inscribed by Welsh artist Jonah Jones with a poem by Lloyd George's nephew Dr William George, a former Archdruid of Wales.

Together with Loyola and five others, he founded the Society of Jesus: on 15 August 1534, in a small chapel in Montmartre, they made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, and also vowed to convert the Muslims in the Middle East ( or, failing this, carry out the wishes of the Pope ).

The body of Boniface VIII was buried in 1303 in a special chapel that also housed the remains of Pope Boniface IV.

Cornelius is not buried in the chapel of the popes, but in a nearby catacomb, and the inscription on his tomb is in Latin, instead of the Greek of his predecessor's Pope Fabian and successor's Lucius I.

Zuccari was recalled to Rome by Pope Gregory XIII to continue in the Pauline chapel of the Vatican.

In the 14th century, Pope Urban VIII gave Montpellier a new monastery dedicated to Saint Peter, noteworthy for the very unusual porch of its chapel, supported by two high, somewhat rocket-like towers.

Sistine Chapel (; ) is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope in the Vatican City.

Under the patronage of Pope Julius II, Michelangelo painted of the chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512.

The chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored the old Cappella Magna between 1477 and 1480.

The Cappella Maggiore derived its name, the Greater Chapel, from the fact that there was another chapel also in use by the Pope and his retinue for daily worship.

According to a communication from Andreas of Trebizond to Pope Sixtus IV, by the time of its demolition to make way for the present chapel, the Cappella Maggiore was in a ruinous state with its walls leaning.

The present chapel, on the site of the Cappella Maggiore, was designed by Baccio Pontelli for Pope Sixtus IV, for whom it is named, and built under the supervision of Giovannino de Dolci between 1473 and 1481.

His compositions, of which very few have been published, were very favourable specimens of the severe ecclesiastical style ; one in particular, a ten-part Miserere, composed for Holy Week in 1821 by order of Pope Pius VII, has taken a permanent place in the services of the Sistine chapel during Passion Week.

She later met the Pope and embarked on other official duties, including a trip to St. Isidore's College, a talk at the Pontifical Irish College and a Mass said especially for the Irish Embassy at Villa Spada chapel.

The chapel was licensed in 1352 and built in 1366, in the year that Pope Urban V granted the Master and Fellows permission to celebrate Mass in the college.

Pope Alexander III took Richard to task when Richard acquiesced in the election of bishops taking place in the royal chapel.

There was also a chapel, the chapel of St. Laurenti, mentioned in a letter issued on February 5 of 1308 as Ecclesia beati Laurentii de Eikundarsund, where Pope Clement V gives King Håkon V Magnusson extensive privileges concerning the king's 14 chapels ( including the chapel of St. Laurenti ), which was founded by himself or his father, King Magnus Lagabøte, and his grandfather, King Håkon Håkonson.

Her best known works are probably the monumental Pope John Paul II in St Patrick's College Maynooth and the carved altar in the University College Cork chapel.

In the chapel, Ghirlandaio painted six scenes from the life of Saint Francis, including Saint Francis obtaining from Pope Honorius the Approval of the Rules of His Order, the saint's Death and Obsequies and a Resuscitation by the interposition of the beatified Francis of a child of the Spini family, who had died as a result of a fall from a window.

He also renovated the chapel royal, one of two churches within the castle at this time, and in 1501 received approval from the Pope for the establishment of a college of priests.

In 1589, Pope Sixtus V relocated the steps to their present location in front of the ancient palatine chapel ( the Sancta Sanctorum ).

In 1488 Mantegna was called by Pope Innocent VIII to paint frescos in a chapel Belvedere in the Vatican.

Yet in 1435 he was again in the service of the papal chapel, but this time it was in Florence — Pope Eugene having been driven from Rome in 1434 by the establishment of an insurrectionary republic there, sympathetic to the Council of Basel and the Conciliar movement.