The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and “houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

Pope Leo XIV appears at the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for his first Sunday blessing after his election, in St.

"I wanted so much to come here in these first days of the new ministry that the church has given me" to seek Mary's help "to ...

Less than 48 hours after being elected, Pope Leo XIV got in the front seat of a minivan and traveled 40 miles southeast from ...

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The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said. Dozens of world leaders attended, including President Trump.

Thousands of people paid their respects as the pontiff's body lay in state inside St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City in the days before his burial in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

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

Francis, 88, died on Monday at the Vatican. Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, was buried Saturday at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major after dying one week ago at 88 years old.

Francis will then be buried in Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore - or Saint Mary Major - rather than at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, like almost all his predecessors. The ceremony ...

The basilica houses the icon of the Salus Populi Romani and the Holy Cradle of Jesus. Built on the site of a pagan temple of Cybele, Saint Mary Major preserves the basilica’s floor plan and the ...