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 ...

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Salus Populi Romani, found in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Fine Art Images / Heritage Images via Getty Images) Pope Francis’s devotion to the basilica was ...

Francis has now been entombed at Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re honored the pope’s ability to lead with “an open heart toward everyone” as he conduc ...

Pope Francis’s funeral procession will depart from St. Peter’s Basilica, the epicenter ... of Rome’s main thoroughfares to reach Santa Maria Maggiore. This route will allow thousands of ...

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine,” of Santa Maria Maggiore ... that he had visited the Marian basilica at the beginning and the end ...

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 – also ...

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 ...