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

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica, in a break with tradition and sign of humility.

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

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

Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani.

The basilica holds some of the Church’s most important relics, including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, attributed to Saint Luke. It also holds pieces of wood believed to ...

Pope Francis was buried inside his favourite Rome church after a funeral mass in St Peter's Square, the Vatican said on ...

The basilica holds some of the Church's most important relics, including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, attributed to Saint Luke. It also holds pieces of wood believed to have ...

The basilica holds some of the Church's most important relics, including an icon of the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus attributed to Saint Luke. For Catholics, it also holds pieces of wood ...

These include pieces of wood believed to be from Jesus's crib and an icon of Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus called Salus Populi Romani or "Protectress of the Roman People" said to have belonged to ...

St. Mary Major is one of the four papal basilicas in Rome — the “major” refers not to the Virgin Mary but to ... Joseph and the baby Jesus, and the Franciscans take the Christ child ...