Buried
The crypts beneath the main aisle hold the remains of notable persons, including:
- Dukes of Masovia:
- Stanisław
- Janusz III
- Adam Kazanowski
- composers and musicians of the Royal Cappella Vasa, e.g. Asprillo Pacelli, whose magnificent black-marble epitaph with composer's bust was reconstructed after the war
- the last of Polish monarchs Stanisław August Poniatowski, who was also crowned in the cathedral
- statesman Stanisław Małachowski, whose white-marble monument was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen (destroyed, August 21, 1944, when a German tank filled with explosives struck the cathedral's southern wall; reconstructed, 1965)
- painter Marcello Bacciarelli
- writer Henryk Sienkiewicz
- presidents of Poland:
- Gabriel Narutowicz
- Ignacy Mościcki
- premier and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski
- General Kazimierz Sosnkowski
- primates:
- August Hlond
- Józef Glemp
- Stefan Wyszyński
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