She is one of the pope-girls who filled the long line at Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore to enter. 'For us, Francesco was a beacon and will continue to be so,' she says.

On that day, large screens will be installed in Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore and behind it, in Piazza dell'Esquilino. Already today, Giannini explained, 'we have seen a very significant influx of ...

The faithful concentrated mainly on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in the final stretch through the Roman Forum, and at Santa Maria Maggiore Square, a stone's throw from Termini Station.

Santa Maria Maggiore's senior priest, the Lithuanian Rolandas Makrickas, gave Italian newspaper Il Messaggero his account of how the Pope's decision to be laid to rest there came about. He said ...

Although seven other popes are buried in Santa Maria Maggiore, Francis will be the first not to be interred in St. Peter’s Basilica since Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was laid to rest in the ...

Masolino da Panicale’s Founding of Santa Maria Maggiore — painted in 1428–1429 as part of an altarpiece originally displayed in the basilica and now on view at the Museo di Capodimonte in ...