ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes for centuries before the Vatican was ...

Archaeologists uncovered walls that date back to between the 9th and 13th century, be part of the Patriarchate. The discovery ...

Excavators working at an ancient ... located in Rome, said that it recently bid farewell to "the beautiful stone head." The head was found during the excavation of the Basilica of St. Stephen ...

Pope Francis will be laid to rest April 26 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in keeping with his final wishes. The decision breaks a 300-year tradition of papal burials at St. Peter’s Basilica in ...

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine ... Tiber River and St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in Rome, Italy. It also locates St ...

Credit: AP/Markus Schreiber The basilica also has significance for ... St. Mary Major is perched on top of one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built and its bell tower is the tallest ...

He’d driven to the basilica after being discharged from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital March ... the beloved Maria Salus Populi Romani icon, an ancient Byzantine icon of Mary and the Child Jesus ...

The pontiff was interred at the basilica on Saturday ... Perched on top of one of the seven hills on which ancient Rome was built, Santa Maria Maggiore is one of four papal basilicas and held ...

Father Gaurav Shroff of Atlanta shares his experiences during the mourning period for Pope Francis and the election of a new ...

The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and “houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...