It has often been assumed that the Veronica was present in the Old St Peter's in the papacy of John VII (705-8), as a chapel known as the Veronica chapel was built during his reign, and this seems to have been the assumption of later writers. However, this is far from certain, as mosaics that decorated that chapel do not refer to the Veronica story in any way. Furthermore, contemporaneous writers make no reference to the Veronica in this period. It would appear however that the Veronica was in place by 1011 when a scribe was identified as keeper of the cloth.