Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in ...

Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, has broken with tradition when it comes to where he is being laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica instead of the grottoes of the Vatican.

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

Every time Pope Francis came back to Rome after a trip abroad, he made sure to pay a visit to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore ... away from the awe-inspiring St Peter's Square and its imposing ...

Six kilometers connecting St. Peter to Santa Maria Maggiore. After the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, April 26, the funeral procession will start, passing through the streets of Rome's ...

According to the official website of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florentine architect Ferdinando Fuga ... staircase designed by Carlo Rainaldi in 1673. The Basilica of Saint Mary Major, a ...

Pope Francis ordered that upon his death he would be buried in the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore (Basilica of St. Mary Major). This basilica was very dear to him. Francis, however, will not be the ...

And the last pontiff to be buried outside the Vatican was Leo XIII in 1903, whose final resting place is the Church of Saint John Lateran, the Cathedral of the bishop of Rome. One of four papal ...