Tomb
He was buried in the papal crypt of the Catacomb of Callixtus, on the Appian Way in Rome. The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop readable.
His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius and were discovered on 17 November 1595 when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church.
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