Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, died on Monday at the age of 88. In his will, Francis requested to be ...

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

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

Pope Francis I will have a funeral service following the example set by most of his predecessors - but has requested to be ...

Five other Popes are buried at Santa Maria Maggiore and these include ... where he would pray in front a venerated image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. In his final years, the pontiff appeared ...

Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88, made sure to have his funeral plans finalised as he reached his final years, and ...

Pope Francis used to pray at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore before and ... in front of a sacred image of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus.

Christians see gift giving as a symbolic homage to the Three Wise Men's tributes to the baby Jesus. In the New Testament ... with a lot of money." Santa: The evolution of a gift giver Santa ...

In previous years, he washed the feet of the inmates, in emulation of Jesus with his disciples on ... two men met for a few minutes at the Casa Santa Marta “to exchange Easter greetings.” ...

“When people are treated with such disrespect because they are immigrants — I keep perceiving pictures of the baby Jesus and the blessed mother and St Joseph,” Pelosi said. “It all comes ...

a site he visited over 100 times during his papacy to pray before the icon of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. This makes Francis the first pope in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican.

In the annals of papal history, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has died at the age of 88, will be remembered principally as the ...