Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there ...

Pope Francis will be laid to rest April 26 at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in keeping with his final wishes. The ...

the very first thing he did on his first official day as pope, was to go to St. Mary Major to pray at the tomb of St. Pius V,” Briscoe says. “It's very beautiful that he's going back ...

Until 1903, when Pope Pius X took charge of the Holy See, a pope's organs were routinely removed after death and kept as relics at Rome's Church of Saints Anastasio and Vincent near the Trevi ...