The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes over the past 1,961 years are buried in Rome, in dozens of crypts, catacombs, and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. This hole in the ...

During a hospital visit to get his tonsils out, officer Page learned terminal cancer had spread throughout his body. Suddenly, the Gulf War army veteran was facing the toughest fight of his life.

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However, the tonsils have small folds, or “crypts,” where bacteria and food can collect. This can create small, stone-like formations that doctors call tonsil stones or tonsilloliths.

Tonsillitis refers to inflammation of the tonsils, which are two oval-shaped glands that sit at the back of the throat. Their role is to fight off bacteria and viruses that enter the body through ...

VATICAN CITY, — In a significant break from papal tradition, Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was not laid to rest in the customary three coffins that have been used for pontiffs for ...

A humble Francis decreed in his will that he would be interred in a simple underground tomb at Santa Maria Maggiore, unlike the previous Popes who had been buried in the crypts beneath St Peter's ...

The pontiff decreed in his will that he would be interred in a simple underground tomb at Santa Maria Maggiore, unlike the previous popes who had been buried in the crypts beneath St Peter's Basilica.

Popes usually get buried in the Vatican Grottoes (the crypts beneath St. Peter’s Basilica). But Pope Francis has previously said that he wants to get buried in the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica ...