Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the centre of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes. Francis, ...

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Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

The image of the Salus populi romani venerated by the Capitoline is increasingly a model for Catholics around the world. Many, many faithful have been in line since the morning at Santa ...

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine,” of Santa Maria Maggiore ... that he had visited the Marian basilica at the beginning and the end ...

Guests at the funeral were earlier told of the Pope's call to 'build bridges', as Trump and Zelensky were pictured meeting inside St Peter's Basilica.

New surprise blitz by Pope Francis. The Pope arrived at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore shortly before 3 pm to pray to the Salus Populi Romani, which is so dear to him. Dressed in a white ...

Pope Francis’s funeral procession will depart from St. Peter’s Basilica, the epicenter ... of Rome’s main thoroughfares to reach Santa Maria Maggiore. This route will allow thousands of ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore – also ...