It is rare for a pope to be buried outside the Vatican, and Francis is the first to do so since Pope Leo XIII in 1903.

Francis, who shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy, asked to be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore - rather than ...

Pope Francis is the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican. He broke with tradition, ...

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope’s decision to be ...

In 2023, Pope Francis announced that he would be buried at St. Mary Major; his tomb has been prepared near the Salus Populi Romani icon. While most popes are buried at St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Pope ...

He asked that his tomb be placed in the aisle next to the ... was carried in procession through Rome was in 1903, when Pope Leo XIII’s coffin was taken from St. Peter’s Square to the Basilica ...

According to Vatican estimates, some 250,000 people flocked to the funeral Mass at the Vatican and 150,000 more lined the ...