basilica
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The basilica was due to be finished for this year’s centenary of Gaudí’s death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
An exhibition marking the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death shows how his humble life inspired the artists who adorned his namesake basilica and changed the way sacred figures were depicted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
The pope also announced that he would return to the basilica on 11 April to lead a prayer vigil for peace.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
His remains, which will be on display until March 22, were transferred to the basilica built in the saint's honour in 1230.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
St Mark’s basilica revealed to Monteverdi a new world of possibility; as far as I know, this is the only example in Western music of a building changing the course of history.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
He will be laid to rest in the Basilica of St Mary Major, one of four major papal basilicas in Rome.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2025
Rupnik’s mosaics decorate churches and basilicas around the world, including at the Catholic shrine in Lourdes, France, the forthcoming cathedral in Aparecida, Brazil, and the Redemptoris Mater chapel of the Apostolic Palace.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
Rupnik is one of the most celebrated religious artists in the Catholic Church, whose mosaics decorate churches and basilicas around the world, including at the Vatican.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
With their crystalline mosaics and thin, pure light, these humbly elegant basilicas conjure the time when a strange, fervent, unyielding new cult rose from the ashes of empire.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
From time to time, the cry of the Musselman priests, calling the believers to prayer from the height of the minarets, mixed with the chimes of basilicas that summoned the Christians to their devotions.
From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue
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