The door to the right of the central one of S. Peter's Cathedral is called "Holy Door" and since the Middle Ages is only opened during the Jubilees.

When Pope Pius XII celebrated the mid-century Jubilee (1950) he substituted the old wooden door with a new bronze one.

He commissioned it to the sculptor Vico Consorti from Siena and wanted that the casting and chiselling of the "Holy Door" should be assigned to the "Marinelli" foundry of Florence, credited supplier of the Vatican and of the Vatican Museums.