The sarcophagus of St. John of Nepomuk (1345 – 1393) inside the St. Vitus Cathedral is a 1721 Baroque monument cast in silver designed by Fischer von Erlach. He is portrayed with a halo of five stars.

His canonization was a move by the Jesuit as a Counter-Reformation ploy to elevate him as a national religious hero over Protestant forerunner Jan Hus, who was burn at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Hus’ monument is in the center of Old Town Square.