With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

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Pope Francis' coffin arrived at his final resting place at the Basilica Di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy.

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

Huge crowds were already growing outside the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, where Pope Francis will be buried. The ...

Rome—The Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church ...

Pope Francis is not the only Pope to be buried in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major. But he would be the first Pope in 350 ...

Rome’s Esquiline Hill was identified ... The day after his death, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore was far busier than usual, with mourners, worshipers and other visitors coming by the ...

The image of the Salus populi romani venerated by the Capitoline is increasingly a model for Catholics around the world. Many ...

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