After being raised to the altars, the remains of the new Blessed John Paul II will be exhibited to be venerated in the interior of the Basilica of San Pedro. John Paul II, who died on April 2, 2005, rests on a very particular coffin: a triple coffin. His body is in a walnut coffin, which in turn is inside a perfectly sealed lead coffin, which in turn is inside a coffin of cypress wood.
Be the triple coffin (which until Thursday was under a slab of white marble in the Vatican Grottoes, in the underground Basilica of St. Peter) that expose the public today in the chapel of San Sebastian, located just a few steps from the famous Pietà by Michelangelo. Monday morning the coffin will be buried under the altar of the chapel of San Sebastian, in a ceremony closed to the public.
Along with the remains of John Paul II will be exhibited also a relic of the new Blessed, a small vial of blood from Karol Wojtyla. Blood was taken from the Polish pope in his last days of life with the possibility that it may require autologous transfusion and was kept at the transfusion center of the Infant Jesus Hospital in Rome.
However, that autotransfusion was not performed and blood was divided into four small containers. Two remained in the hands of the former personal secretary of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Dziwisz, and the remaining two were devoutly guarded by nuns of the Hospital del Niño Jesús. The blood of the last two containers have now been transferred to two shrines.
One of them will be presented to the faithful during the beatification ceremony and then be kept in the tabernacle of the Pope with other important relics. The second will be shown next to the remains of John Paul II and then again be left to the nuns of the Hospital del Niño Jesús. The blood of the four shrines are located in the liquid state since John Paul II had been medicated with an anticoagulant was extracted Cundo it. 
Be the triple coffin (which until Thursday was under a slab of white marble in the Vatican Grottoes, in the underground Basilica of St. Peter) that expose the public today in the chapel of San Sebastian, located just a few steps from the famous Pietà by Michelangelo. Monday morning the coffin will be buried under the altar of the chapel of San Sebastian, in a ceremony closed to the public.
Along with the remains of John Paul II will be exhibited also a relic of the new Blessed, a small vial of blood from Karol Wojtyla. Blood was taken from the Polish pope in his last days of life with the possibility that it may require autologous transfusion and was kept at the transfusion center of the Infant Jesus Hospital in Rome.
However, that autotransfusion was not performed and blood was divided into four small containers. Two remained in the hands of the former personal secretary of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Dziwisz, and the remaining two were devoutly guarded by nuns of the Hospital del Niño Jesús. The blood of the last two containers have now been transferred to two shrines.
One of them will be presented to the faithful during the beatification ceremony and then be kept in the tabernacle of the Pope with other important relics. The second will be shown next to the remains of John Paul II and then again be left to the nuns of the Hospital del Niño Jesús. The blood of the four shrines are located in the liquid state since John Paul II had been medicated with an anticoagulant was extracted Cundo it.
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