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The current background is an image of the Pantheon in Rome. Construction of the Pantheon began in 27BC, dedicated as a temple to all gods it was converted to a church in AD 609 when Pope Boniface the Fourth consecrated it as Santa Maria ad Martyres, the Church of Saint Mary and the Martyrs, after hauling twenty-eight cartloads of bones from the catacombs to rebury there.The remains are in a crypt beneath the floor, in a bronze urn that Boniface placed under the high altar.