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St. Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri; Italian: Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) is a Late<br />
Renaissance church located within Vatican City.<br />
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St.<br />
Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains one of the largest<br />
Churches in the world. Churches<br />
It is believed by a long tradition that Peter, after a ministry of about thirty years, travelled to Rome and<br />
met his martyrdom there in the year 64 AD during the reign of the Roman Emperor Nero. His execution<br />
was one of the many martyrdoms of Christians following the Great Fire of Rome. According to Origen,<br />
Peter was crucified head downwards, by his own request because he considered himself unworthy to<br />
die in the same manner as Jesus. The crucifixion took place near an ancient Egyptian obelisk in the<br />
Circus of Nero. The obelisk now stands in Saint Peter's Square and is revered as a "witness" to Peter's<br />
death. It is one of several ancient Obelisks of Rome.According to tradition, Peter's remains were<br />
buried just outside the Circus, on the Mons Vaticanus across the Via Cornelia from the Circus, less
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