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An example prayer card held up inside St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's Basilica · Vatican City

Your prayer, carried in by hand and held up over the tomb of St. Peter. Then photographed, so you can see it happened.

There is a difference between a prayer unanswered and a prayer nobody ever witnessed. Your words are printed and carried in. They are held up where prayers have been carried for centuries. Then you get the photograph.

Placed and photographed within 3 days.
Write My Prayer

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We do not sell outcomes. We carry your card in and photograph it.

“I wrote it for my mother the night before her scan. Three days later there was a photograph of her name held up in that place, in somebody's hand. I have looked at it every day since.”

Maria · Parma Heights, Ohio

Prayers being carried in right now:

A mother from Texas is praying for her son's healing from a rare illness.

Every card is carried in by hand. Yours is next.

How it works

You do not have to get to Rome. Your card goes instead.

  1. You write it.

    Plain words are enough. Plain is what gets carried in. Up to 320 characters. Room for the whole prayer, and every word fits on the card.

  2. It is carried in and held up.

    Your card is printed in Rome and left exactly as you wrote it. Fr. Marco carries it into St. Peter's Basilica and holds it up over the tomb, among the candles.

  3. You see exactly where it is held.

    The photograph comes to your inbox within 3 days. Every word you wrote is legible on the card.

Start With Step One

This is where your card goes.

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, built over the tomb of the Apostle Peter.

  • The façade of St. Peter's Basilica lit at night, with the obelisk in the square

    The basilica at night, from St. Peter's Square.

  • The nave of St. Peter's, looking toward the papal altar

    The nave, looking toward the papal altar.

  • The papal altar under Bernini's canopy, over the tomb of St. Peter

    The papal altar, over the tomb of St. Peter. Cards are held up here.

  • Michelangelo's dome seen from below, over Bernini's canopy

    Michelangelo's dome, above the altar.

Who carries your card

Somebody makes the walk for you.

Fr. Marco, the pilgrim chaplain who carries the cards into St. Peter's Basilica
Fr. Marco, on his way in. He has made this walk most mornings for two years.

He is not a priest of this basilica and never claims to be. He is a pilgrim chaplain who goes in on foot with a stack of cards in his breast pocket and comes out again.

A woman once left a folded card on a bench after a Mass. She never came back for it. It stayed in his breviary for eleven months.

When he finally read it, it was a prayer for her daughter, set out in full and signed. She had written it and never brought it in. Whatever was between her and the door, she could not get past it.

He carried it in for her the next morning. He has been carrying other people’s in ever since.

  • He cannot promise how God answers, and he says so before he takes your money.
  • He does not read your prayer aloud to anyone.
  • It is a service fee, not a donation, and the basilica does not run this.
Read how this started →

Fr. Marco

What people wrote back

Every card is carried in, held up, and photographed where it is held.

People who wrote a prayer down and could not get to Rome themselves. Each photograph is that person's own card, held up inside St. Peter's. Read them one at a time.

  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Maria's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I half expected nothing and nearly closed the page twice. Three days later it was there. I have it open on my phone more than any photograph I own.”

    MariaParma Heights, Ohio
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Robert's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “What got me was the hand. Somebody's actual hand holding my mother's name up in that place, in the real light, and the picture to prove it happened.”

    RobertBirmingham, Alabama
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Kathleen's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I sent one for my best friend going through treatment. She replied with a screenshot and three words. I have never given her anything that landed like that.”

    KathleenScranton, Pennsylvania
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Denise's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I wrote one for my grandma, who raised me, and put off sending it a week because it felt like a gimmick. It did not feel like one when it arrived. I cannot get to Rome. Part of me is there now.”

    DeniseYoungstown, Ohio
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Frank's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I typed it at my kitchen table in my robe at eleven at night, mostly to stop thinking about it. When the photo came I sat there a while. Nothing got fixed. It just stopped being something I had not done.”

    FrankWaterville, Maine
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Wanda's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “Nobody promised me anything would be fixed, which is why I did it and why I did not feel foolish after. They said your card will be there and we will show you. It was. They did.”

    WandaCouncil Bluffs, Iowa
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Terrence's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “My wife and I have been praying for the same thing for six years. Neither of us has ever put it in writing. Now it is written down and it is in there, and that changed something in the house.”

    TerrenceMacon, Georgia
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Linda's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I am not a churchgoer. I sent it because my mother asked me to before she died and I never got round to it. I got round to it. I would like to think she knows.”

    LindaSpokane, Washington
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Maureen's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I have been told about St. Peter's my whole life and never once believed it was a place you could reach. Seeing my own words on a card inside it, that was the first time it was real to me.”

    MaureenAlbuquerque, New Mexico
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Curtis's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “Somebody actually handled this, mine, with my mother's name on it. Real card, real hand, real people walking about behind it. You can tell nobody was performing for a camera.”

    CurtisPeoria, Illinois
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Norma's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I have carried a lot of worry for my son this past year. Getting the photo back gave me a peace I had not felt in months. Nothing was promised to me and that is why I believed it.”

    NormaDayton, Ohio
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Simone's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I did not expect a keepsake. I expected a transaction and I got the opposite, and it is sitting in a frame on my hall table where anybody who comes in can see it.”

    SimoneBurlington, Vermont
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Herbert's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I sent one for my father. He is not able to travel any more. This let the two of us stand in that place together, which we never did in his walking years.”

    HerbertColumbus, Georgia
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Yolanda's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I ordered it at one in the morning, half embarrassed. When the photograph arrived I sat in the car outside work and cried in a way I have not cried in a long time.”

    YolandaFayetteville, Arkansas
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Zachary's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “My grandmother raised me and she died in March. I could not get to Rome and I could not get anywhere. Her name is in St. Peter's. That is not nothing.”

    ZacharyRichmond, Virginia
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Cindy's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “My mother was going through a very hard health scare and I was too far away to do anything at all. Having her prayer carried in there meant everything to me.”

    CindyBaton Rouge, Louisiana
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Elaine's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I have prayed the same words for eleven years and never once had anything to hold. I have something to hold now, and I have looked at it more often than I would admit to anyone.”

    ElaineCharleston, South Carolina
  • A prayer card held up inside St. Peter's, with Victor's name on it
    Carried in, St. Peter's

    “I did not grow up believing in any of this. I sent it because my daughter asked me to. I have the photograph in my wallet. Draw your own conclusions.”

    VictorTucson, Arizona

What are you carrying?

People write these for the same handful of reasons. Yours may be one of them.

  • Healing
  • Strength
  • Grief
  • Family
  • Provision
  • Protection
  • Gratitude
  • Something else
Start With Step One

What you get

  • Your words, printed on our card in Rome, exactly as you typed them.
  • One person carrying that card into St. Peter's Basilica by hand.
  • Your card held up over the tomb, in the light of the place itself.
  • A photograph of your card exactly where it is held, in your inbox within 3 days.
  • Your card text kept on file, so you never have to write it twice.
An example prayer card held up inside St. Peter's Basilica by Fr. Marco, with pilgrims in the background
Maria's card, printed from the words written at home and carried in by hand, held up over the tomb of St. Peter.

One placement. One photograph.

No account and no subscription. Nothing repeats unless you ask for it.

One placement

$69.00$19.90

  • Your words printed on our card in Rome, exactly as you typed them
  • Carried in by hand and held up over the tomb of St. Peter
  • Photographed, and in your inbox within 3 days
  • A private portal that holds your photograph and your writing
  • 30-day money-back guarantee
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FAQ

You can, and it is a real and legitimate thing to do. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What the free form gives you is the sending. What it does not give you is any way to know it arrived, or was held up, or was ever seen by anyone. This gives you a photograph: your card, in the place, on the day. You are not paying for the sending. You are paying for the seeing.

No. This is an independent service. We are not the Basilica, we are not the Vatican, and we do not speak for the Church. Alongside your own parish giving, never instead of it.

Four things, in this order, every time: printing the card, carrying it in, holding it up, and photographing it. It is a service fee, not a donation. No one can sell you an outcome and we do not try.

Yes. At step 5 you can add a second email, and the photograph goes to them as well as to you. People send them for surgeries, for anniversaries of a loss, and for the hard seasons nobody else has noticed.

Because your words are on it. The card in the photograph carries the name and the prayer you wrote, legible, in the place. It is not a picture of somebody else’s prayer.

We write the card again and photograph it again, free. Write to support within 30 days with the right spelling.

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This closes one gap. Not the gap between you and God. The gap between a prayer you made and any proof that it went somewhere.

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