Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

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Francis opted for burial in Santa Maria Maggiore, located in Rome's most multi-cultural neighbouhood. No pope has been laid ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a chapel now, with a new stained-glass window.

“I pray the next pope will be a living icon of Christ,” he said ... Tony Nasrallah, PhD, is an Orthodox Christian and adjunct associate professor of architecture, history, and ethics ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest in a location that reflected his humble approach to the grand office. Breaking with tradition, the pontiff, death at the age of 88 was announced on Easter Monday, chose a ...

More than 150,000 people lined the route through Rome to visit Pope Francis's tomb and say farewell. The Pope's casket was placed in a simple marble tomb in a side aisle of the Santa Maria Maggiore ...

Hundreds of people filed past the tomb of Pope Francis from early on Sunday morning in the Roman basilica where he chose to be buried in a break from tradition. No pope had been laid to rest outside ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

Argentina-born Francis prayed in the basilica early on March 14 ... his abdominal surgeries in 2021 and 2023. A venerated Byzantine icon of Mary is housed in the Pauline chapel in the left ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain.