This Oscar Niemeyer project was inaugureted in 1970. It has sixteen columns of reinforced concrete, each 40-meters high. The altar was donated by Pope Paul VI, who also blessed the 12-meters metal cross on the top of the Cathedral. The stained glass side panels were designed by Marianne Peretti. Inside are such items as: Via Dolorosa, by Di Cavalcanti; three angels cast in aluminum alloy by Alfredo Ceschiatti and Dante Croce, and replicas of Michelangelo's Pietà and of the Holy Shroud of Turin.