basilica
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In Barcelona, the basilica, funded by donations and now, more amply, by tourist dollars, has become a metaphor for dilatoriness and delay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Visitors from around the world are drawn to the scale and strangeness of the basilica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 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
The skull was also damaged when the body was moved into the basilica in the 13th century.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
But what you cannot do in the basilica is speak or sing quickly: it would come out as gobbledegook.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
It is one of Rome's four major basilicas and one of the oldest in the city.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2025
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
His mosaics decorate chapels, churches and basilicas around the globe.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
In bordering Umbria, thousands more were damaged when small churches and large basilicas crumbled.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022
It is the grandest of the many basilicas Rome possesses.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
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