ROME (AP) — The Roman basilica of the Augustinians — Pope Leo XIV’s religious order — preserves an iconic painting of the ...

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Earned a masters degree in linguistic, literary and translation studies at Rome’s Sapienza University Joined Intramovies as festival assistant in 2020 Lanfranchi has been steeped in the cinema ...

Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdö, 72, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, celebrated Mass at his church of Santa Maria Nuova, also known as the Basilica of Santa Francesca Romana, in the Roman Forum. The ...

More than 20,000 faithful have come to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore to pay homage to Pope Francis, who was buried inside yesterday. Doors open from 7: there are families, groups of ...

The late pope was laid to rest at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in a private ceremony following his public funeral on Saturday Images of Pope Francis's tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in ...

Instead, the "Pope of the People" chose a church in the center of Rome that holds significance to him throughout his papacy as his final resting place. Santa Maria Maggiore, or St. Mary Major ...

Pope Francis selected his burial site at St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna he deeply revered, as it symbolizes his "humble, simple, and essential" life, according to the ...

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.

Pope Francis has been laid to rest at the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica. The late pontiff’s entombment was a private event which allowed those close to him to pay their last respects.

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 ...