A fresco of Constantine’s Old St. Peter’s Basilica as it looked in the ... The baldacchino, the swirly-columned arch over the basilica’s high altar, was designed by the famed Baroque artist ...

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday ... led the procession to the altar, with clouds of incense and the choir chanting the Litany of ...

pass through Santa Marta Square and the Square of the Roman Protomartyrs before reaching St. Peter’s Square and entering the Vatican Basilica. At the Altar of the Confession, Farrell will ...

Ordinary faithful filled St. Peter’s Square to watch the procession ... Instead, it will just be placed on the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, simply facing the pews.

VATICAN CITY — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their ... way slowly to the 16th-century basilica’s main altar, where Francis’ simple ...

In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, with the sunshine glinting across the bronze canopy that towers over the main altar, thousands of Catholic pilgrims streamed in to glimpse the body of ...

Francis' body was taken from the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, his residence at the Vatican, to St Peter's Basilica on the morning of Wednesday, April 23 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer ...

Earlier, the bells of St. Peter’s tolled as his body was transferred ... was just placed on an inclined ramp the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, facing the pews, with four Swiss Guards ...

Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter's Basilica to pray before this evening's Easter vigil and greeted some of the faithful present.

Throngs of faithful start paying final respects to pope They made their way slowly to the main altar of the 16th-century St. Peter's Basilica, where Francis' simple wooden casket was perched on a ...

Earlier, the bells of St. Peter’s tolled as his body was transferred ... was just placed on an inclined ramp the main altar of the 16th-century basilica, facing the pews, with four Swiss Guards ...