Roma · Italy · Tomb

Chiesa del Gesù

The church website places Ignatius’s tomb in the left transept, beneath the altar of Saint Ignatius’s chapel.

FROM THE ACTUAL LOCATION

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Select a photograph to enlarge it. Captions explain what is shown.

Ignatius’s urn beneath his chapel altar in the Gesù, Rome. The photograph shows the container and altar setting.
Torvindus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo source · 13 November 2005

The Society of Jesus’s mother church

The Gesù is the Society of Jesus’s mother church. Its custodian places Ignatius’s tomb beneath the altar in his chapel in the left transept. Rome also has a church named Sant’Ignazio; similar names do not identify the same tomb.

Church of the Gesù

Urn and altar across different periods

The Commons photograph identifies an urn by Alessandro Algardi; the custodian attributes the chapel’s decoration to Andrea Pozzo. These artworks are later layers of remembrance, not objects that Ignatius necessarily used himself.

Church of the Gesù

How to explore the space

Locate the chapel altar, then compare the gallery’s urn detail. Separate what is visible from what a source reports. A detail photograph does not show the whole building; the atlas still indicates a city area, not an exact point on the church floor.

Church of the Gesù

HISTORY OF THE REMAINS