Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Philip Neri ... is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there more than 350 years ago. Clement requested that he be ...

Pope Francis ... will be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead of in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, where many of pope's predecessors are buried, Reuters reported.

Pope Francis’s burial breaks with recent papal tradition; most popes are laid to rest in St. Peter’s Basilica. He will be the first pope not buried in there in over a century—the last pope n ...

Francis stopped at St. Mary to deliver flowers and he last visited on April 12, just days before he died on Monday, April 21, of a cerebral stroke. Seven other popes have been buried at the church ...

Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a ...

While Popes are typically buried in the grottoes under St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis opted instead to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (also known as Basilica of St. Mary ...

Pope Francis will be buried in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica, rather than St. Peter’s Cathedral or its crypt alongside previous popes. St. Mary Major Basilica is home to ...