Photos of Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt

The Catholic Art Museum and Tomb are located in the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral behind the archway of St. Paul's. The exhibits in the museum are fine Catholic art collected by many churches and seminaries, including four oil paintings interpreting the deeds of St. Francis and Jesus Christ. Crucifixes, icon sculptures, cult objects, etc. The oil painting "Saint Michael the Great God" in the museum is very famous. St. Paul's Cathedral was destroyed by a fire in 1835. In the center of the tomb is the ruins of a granite tomb, and the ossuary niches on the walls on both sides of the tomb contain the bones of Japanese and Vietnamese martyrs.