The impressive dome ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica in Rome.Credit: Getty Images However, the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is not the only one in Rome. And the one inside the Basilica ...

The group lined up to enter the Santuario della Spogliazione — a somber church, also known as Santa Maria Maggiore, marking the spot where more than 800 years ago St. Francis renounced his ...

Thousands of loyal followers lined up at the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Italy to see Acutis' preserved body, before the teen officially becomes a saint. The 15-year-old, who died from ...

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Pope Francis declared him “venerable” in 2018 and the next year his body was exhumed and moved to a glass cabinet in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, known as the Sanctuary of the Spoilation.

Devotees lined up at the Sanctuary of the Spoliation in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi to take a look at the late Carlo Acutis, who was known as “God’s influencer”. Souvenirs ...

The pope later left the hospital to briefly stop at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, which has an icon of the Virgin Mary he is devoted to, before heading to the Vatican guesthouse where he ...

Fifteen-year-old Carlo Acutis was laid to rest at the Sanctuary of the Spoliation in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in April 2019. It was the London-born teenager's final wish to be buried in ...