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 ...

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 ...

In forgoing tradition again, Francis will not be buried at St. Peter's Basilica; he will be the first pope in almost a century to be buried outside of the Vatican. Francis will be buried at Rome's ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After the pomp of his funeral in St. Peter ...

Pope Francis ... be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead of in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, where many of the pope's predecessors are buried, USA TODAY reports (via ...

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 ...

Popes are traditionally laid to rest underneath St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican Grottoes. However Pope Francis is breaking with tradition and will instead be buried in the Basilica of ...

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.

WEYMOUTH – When complaints about the condition of St. Francis Xavier Cemetery in Weymouth ... Anne Shore, of North Weymouth, said her mother is buried at the cemetery, and for the past ...

A photo of Pope Francis is displayed during the Easter Monday Mass in St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on April 21, 2025. Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025 aged 88, a day after making a much ...