Abstract
AFTER the destruction of the Church of Sta. Galla, previously called Sta. Maria in Portico,2 part of its furnishings were transferred in 1936 to a deposit in the Vatican to be used later for the decoration of other churches in Rome. Among these furnishings was the old altar, at one time a Roman cippus which, according to the inscriptions on the sides, was consecrated by Pope Gregory VII in 1073.3 The inscription also gives a complete list of the relics which the Pope had placed in the sepulcher of the altar. I was permitted to open this sepulcher (at that time still closed), and I found a series of reliquaries of the Middle Ages, some made of glass, others of metal.
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